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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
slew
    n 1: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or
         extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot
         of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the
         rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must
         have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of
         money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great
         deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle,
         mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile,
         plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew,
         spate, stack, tidy sum, wad]
    v 1: turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to
         the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the
         right" [syn: swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer,
         slue, slew, cut]
    2: move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled
       manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" [syn:
       skid, slip, slue, slew, slide]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Slew \Slew\, v. t.
   See Slue.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Slew \Slew\ (sl[=oo]), n. [See Slough a wet place.]
   A wet place; a river inlet.

         The praire round about is wet, at times almost marshy,
         especially at the borders of the great reedy slews.
                                                  --T.
                                                  Roosevelt.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Slew \Slew\,
   imp. of Slay.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Slay \Slay\, v. t. [imp. Slew; p. p. Slain; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Slaying.] [OE. slan, sl?n, sleen, slee, AS. sle['a]n to
   strike, beat, slay; akin to OFries. sl[=a], D. slaan, OS. &
   OHG. slahan, G. schlagen, Icel. sl[=a], Dan. slaae, Sw. sl?,
   Goth. slahan; perhaps akin to L. lacerare to tear to pieces,
   Gr. ????, E. lacerate. Cf. Slaughter, Sledge a hammer,
   Sley.]
   To put to death with a weapon, or by violence; hence, to
   kill; to put an end to; to destroy.
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         With this sword then will I slay you both. --Chaucer.
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         I will slay the last of them with the sword. --Amos ix.
                                                  1.
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         I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk. --Shak.
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   Syn: To kill; murder; slaughter; butcher.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Slue \Slue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slued; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Sluing.] [Prov. E. slew to turn round, Scot. to lean or
   incline to a side; cf. Icel. sn?a to turn, bend.] [Written
   also slew.]
   1. (Naut.) To turn about a fixed point, usually the center or
      axis, as a spar or piece of timber; to turn; -- used also
      of any heavy body.
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   2. In general, to turn about; to twist; -- often used
      reflexively and followed by round. [Colloq.]
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            They laughed, and slued themselves round. --Dickens.
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Thesaurus Results for slew:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
batch, bunch, clump, cluster, considerable, copse, crop, deal, gobs, good deal, great deal, group, grouping, groupment, grove, hassock, heap, heaps, jillion, knot, lashings, loads, lot, lots, mess, million, mint, oodles, pack, peck, pile, piles, pot, quantities, quite a little, raft, rafts, scads, shock, sight, slews, spate, stack, stacks, stook, thicket, thousand, tidy sum, trillion, tuft, tussock, wad, wads, whole slew, wisp
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