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Meaning of slain in English

Table of contents
  1. Pronunciation
  2. Classifying Adjective
    1. Definitions
  3. Noun
    1. Definitions
  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Classifying Adjective

    slain

    Definitions

    1. killed

    Examples

    • « 'slain' is formal or literary as in slain warriors »
    • « a picture of St. George and the slain dragon »

    Synonyms

    • dead
  2. Noun

    slain

    Definitions

    1. people who have been slain (as in battle)

Famous quotes

  • « Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it. »
    Robinson Jeffers
  • « The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold. »
    Edward Bach
  • « Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain. »
    Nagarjuna
  • « Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ. »
    Donald Cargill
  • « If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! »
    Marie de France

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