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slain Definition

slain (slān)

transitive verb

slay

slain Synonyms

slain

modif.

slaughtered, killed, destroyed, assassinated; see dead 1.

slain Quotes

For, those that fly, may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.

—Butler, Samuel

O slain and spent and sacrificed People, the grey-grown speechless Christ.

—Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Ye Highlands and ye Lawlands, O where hae ye been? They hae slain the Earl of Murray And laid him on the green.

—Ballads

If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. See Lang 488:90.

—Emerson, RalphWaldo

Madam, there are fifty thousand men slain this year in Europe, and not one an Englishman.

—Walpole, Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford

Browse dictionary entries near slain

  1. slag
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  3. slacker
  4. slacken
  5. slack water
  6. slack down or off or up
  7. slack-baked
  8. slack
  9. slabber
  10. slab-sided
  1. slake
  2. slalom
  3. slam
  4. slam-bang
  5. slam dancing
  6. slam-dunk
  7. slammer
  8. slamming
  9. slander
  10. slander of goods