Slain

//sleɪn// noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Those who have been killed. plural, plural-only, with-definite-article

    "[…]Morat ! the proud, the patriot field ! where man / May gaze on ghastly trophies of the slain, / Nor blush for those who conquered on that plain ; / Here Burgundy bequeath'd his tombless host, / A bony heap, through ages to remain, / Themselves their monument ;— the Stygian coast / Unsepulchred they roam'd, and shriek'd each wandering ghost."

  2. 2
    people who have been slain (as in battle) wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    past participle of slay form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    killed; ‘slain’ is formal or literary as in ‘slain warriors’ wordnet

Synonyms

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deadslayed

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"Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain; thou gav'st me thine, not to give back again."

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