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Slew

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Noun

1. 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

(often followed by of') a large number or amount or extent

Example Sentences:
'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'

Verb

2. curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer

turn sharply; change direction abruptly

Example Sentences:
'The car cut to the left at the intersection'
'The motorbike veered to the right'

3. skid, slew, slide, slip, slue

move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner

Example Sentences:
'the wheels skidded against the sidewalk'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Slew

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verb
the past tense of slay
verb
1. 
to twist or be twisted sideways, esp awkwardly
he slewed around in his chair
2. nautical
to cause (a mast) to rotate in its step or (of a mast) to rotate in its step
noun
3. 
the act of slewing
noun
a variant spelling (esp US) of slough1 (sense 2)
noun
informal, mainly US and Canadian
a great number or amount; a lot

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Slew

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noun
alt. sp. of
slough2 (sense 4)
noun, verb transitive, verb intransitive
alt. sp. of
slue1
noun
Informal
a large number, group, or amount; a lot
verb transitive
pt. of
slay

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Slew

see synonyms of slew
n.
Informal
A large amount or number; a lot: a slew of unpaid bills.
v.
A past tense of slay.
n.
Variant of slough1.
v.tr. slewed, slew·ing, slews also slued or slu·ing or slues
1. To turn (something) on an axis; rotate: slewed the swivel chair around; slewing the boom of a crane.
2. To turn sharply; veer: braked and slewed the car around.
v.intr.
1. To turn about an axis: "The violet eyes slewed from door to window as if desperate for escape" (P.D. James).
2. To turn or slide sideways or off course; skid.
n.
The act of slewing.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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