Splayed vs Slayed - What's the difference?
splayed | slayed |
(splay)
To display; to spread.
* Gascoigne
To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To spay; to castrate.
To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders.
* M. Arnold
A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
(slay)
(religious) Became or become overwhelmed by religious ecstasy.
As verbs the difference between splayed and slayed
is that splayed is past tense of splay while slayed is past tense of slay.splayed
English
Verb
(head)splay
English
Verb
(en verb)- our ensigns splayed
Adjective
(en adjective)- Something splay , something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous.
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* *slayed
English
Verb
(head)- The service slayed out most of the people there.