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Synonyms for slew
sluslew
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Princeton's WordNet
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, wadverb
(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"
Synonyms:
push-down list, flock, destiny, bulk, cud, chaw, multitude, upsurge, atomic reactor, pile, quid, deal, spile, smokestack, caboodle, crapper, commode, throne, troop, fold, bay window, stool, softwood, chew, gage, push-down store, push-down storage, weed, hand, heap, surge, kitty, jalopy, smoke, muddle, band, lot, passel, vision, freshet, potbelly, mussiness, jam, muss, hole, flowerpot, mint candy, visual modality, quite a little, clutch, luck, plentifulness, toilet, masses, ken, mess hall, down, atomic pile, messiness, the great unwashed, peck, tummy, agglomerate, sight, volume, wad, plug, mount, potty, set, nap, portion, skunk, push-down stack, chain reactor, rush, mound, good deal, big money, galvanic pile, pickle, sens, bundle, fate, voltaic pile, draw, stilt, green goddess, people, visual sense, sess, batch, view, pot, stack, mess, bunch, spate, plenteousness, locoweed, piling, bus, bargain, mountain, survey, business deal, plenty, potentiometer, mint, dope, plentitude, cumulus, plenitude, raft, jackpot, mickle, can, big bucks, kettle of fish, mass, tidy sum, corporation, circumstances, hatful, potful, megabucks, circle, grass, great deal, trade, cumulation, fix, muckle, fortune, hoi polloiswerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cutverb
turn sharply; change direction abruptly
"The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"
Synonyms:
foreshorten, veer, bring down, wind, turn off, edit out, arch, twist, hack, trim down, write out, prune, thin, kink, cut, rationalize, trim back, trim, ignore, swerve, shorten, crook, edit, thin out, cut down, skip, abridge, reduce, rationalise, arc, contract, burn, dilute, curve, switch off, sheer, make out, geld, disregard, tailor, cut off, turn out, snub, slue, slide, issue, cut back, abbreviate, trend, curl, slip, skidskid, slip, slue, slew, slideverb
move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
"the wheels skidded against the sidewalk"
Synonyms:
slide, slip, steal, sheer, sneak, slue, skid, slip one's mind, drop away, swerve, cut, trend, slither, luxate, curve, dislocate, splay, drop off, fall away, mistake, err, veer
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SLEW
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#34 | can | |
#79 | view | |
#105 | people | |
#189 | set | |
#311 | down | |
#604 | issue | |
#644 | hand | |
#718 | trade | |
#748 | lot | |
#848 | edit | |
#1082 | volume | |
#1088 | corporation | |
#1173 | band | |
#1204 | contract | |
#1274 | deal | |
#1288 | survey | |
#1324 | cut | |
#1521 | mountain | |
#1838 | skip | |
#1886 | vision | |
#1899 | wind | |
#1982 | bus | |
#2009 | mass | |
#2036 | reduce | |
#2206 | mount | |
#2464 | fix | |
#2966 | hole | |
#3137 | plug | |
#3201 | circle | |
#3209 | circumstances | |
#3269 | portion | |
#3350 | draw | |
#3394 | slide | |
#3697 | bargain | |
#3977 | bulk | |
#4206 | luck | |
#4236 | smoke | |
#4258 | ken | |
#4349 | thin | |
#4405 | trend | |
#4640 | rush | |
#4715 | plenty | |
#4719 | ignore | |
#4915 | burn | |
#4976 | sight | |
#5100 | pot | |
#5110 | slip | |
#5118 | grass | |
#5177 | mint | |
#5259 | jam | |
#5327 | arc | |
#5702 | stack | |
#5714 | curve | |
#5805 | mistake | |
#5816 | fortune | |
#5998 | trim | |
#6015 | bunch | |
#6146 | arch | |
#6347 | toilet | |
#6423 | fold | |
#7410 | batch | |
#7720 | bundle | |
#7835 | twist | |
#7888 | fate | |
#8009 | mess | |
#8269 | sheer | |
#8412 | hack | |
#8536 | kitty | |
#8683 | steal | |
#8871 | weed | |
#9247 | destiny | |
#9536 | surge | |
#9799 | gage | |
#10160 | masses | |
#10302 | pile | |
#11162 | clutch | |
#11353 | err | |
#12222 | curl | |
#12833 | throne | |
#13461 | tailor | |
#13740 | stool | |
#14364 | heap | |
#14989 | troop | |
#15058 | flock | |
#15252 | jackpot | |
#15456 | nap | |
#15954 | multitude | |
#16203 | sneak | |
#16317 | mound | |
#17739 | peck | |
#17819 | chew | |
#18414 | disregard | |
#19443 | tummy | |
#20034 | skid | |
#20895 | dope | |
#21589 | pickle | |
#21700 | potty | |
#21748 | raft | |
#22194 | slew | |
#25335 | crook | |
#26128 | shorten | |
#27265 | skunk | |
#28687 | dilute | |
#29637 | geld | |
#30277 | sens | |
#30910 | sess | |
#32259 | quid | |
#32685 | piling | |
#32728 | prune | |
#36659 | wad | |
#36775 | kink | |
#39181 | cumulus | |
#40610 | veer | |
#42743 | softwood | |
#43009 | rationalize | |
#43840 | muss | |
#48006 | spate | |
#53513 | cud | |
#55678 | potentiometer | |
#58771 | snub | |
#60090 | slither | |
#60871 | swerve | |
#63726 | upsurge | |
#63911 | muddle | |
#64254 | commode | |
#69368 | stilt | |
#82163 | abbreviate | |
#88024 | splay | |
#94999 | rationalise | |
#101576 | abridge | |
#105496 | smokestack | |
#108777 | jalopy | |
#110246 | flowerpot | |
#112065 | megabucks | |
#120704 | crapper | |
#127323 | mickle | |
#129875 | plenitude | |
#132402 | cumulation | |
#138226 | caboodle | |
#143784 | potbelly | |
#149105 | muckle | |
#153240 | chaw | |
#163107 | passel | |
#176650 | messiness | |
#186696 | agglomerate | |
#196665 | dislocate | |
#201413 | hatful | |
#284929 | freshet |
How to use slew in a sentence?
We have taken a slew of measures to ensure fair prices for the farmers ... instructions have been given to (district officials) to buy rice directly from farmers.
A whole slew of (future) blockbuster drugs are getting traction today, the pipelines look great.
Politically, it's advantage BJP, the scrapping of Article 370 of the constitution is likely to set off a slew of political, constitutional and legal battles, not to speak of the battles on the streets of Kashmir.
Northam is sending two other proposals back to state lawmakers with recommended changes. One would allow local authorities to regulate firearms at certain buildings and events, and the other would ban those subject to protective orders from possessing firearms and require them to turn over firearms within 24 hours, according to the newspaper. The measures come as the Democratic-led General Assembly has taken efforts to enact a slew of gun control measures following a mass shooting in Virginia Beach last year. Republicanstate lawmakers have pushed back. In July, they ended a special session called by Northam to take up gun control measures in 90 minutes.The gun lobby was able to water down some of the bills backed by the governor. While we still dont like them, theyre not as bad as they once were.
He also ushered in a slew of unique, very personal and eclectic characters for DC such as the Question, Blue Beetle, Hawk and Dove and more, polite and unassuming -- he never sought attention or the limelight but in many ways represented the hidden hero he saw in all of us. #RIPsteveditko.
Translations for slew
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- عدد كبيرArabic
- HaufenGerman
- asesinato, montón, armaSpanish
- کشته شدنPersian
- surmasiFinnish
- tuéFrench
- धसानHindi
- csavarodásHungarian
- membunuhIndonesian
- בְּרֵכָהHebrew
- スルーJapanese
- iemand te kakken zetten, verschuiven, omkeren, slippen, slachtpartij, een groot aantal, zwenken, regelen, ommekeer, draaien, instellen, moordwapen, omwentelen, schuivenDutch
- matouPortuguese
- убилRussian
- massa, mängdSwedish
- 摆Chinese
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