Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
slain
IPA transcription: [sl'eɪn]
adverb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
slain
Meaning:
killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors"; "a picture of St. George and the slain dragon"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
slain
Meaning:
people who have been slain (as in battle)
Usage examples
You have slain her!"
Scotched but not slain
At last, however, poor Gilbert was trapped and slain.
They said, 'Saul hath slain his thousands, but David his ten thousands.'
And if I had slain them by treason or treachery I had been worthy to have died.
No! said Sir Andred, and therewith he drew his sword, and would have slain him.
"Four wheels to Charles's wain: Grenville, Trevanion, Slanning, Godolphin slain."
The whole floor of the amphitheatre was a mass of moving shadows, of slayers and slain.
April 26, Booth slain in resisting arrest, by Sergeant Boston Corbett, near Port Royal.
With such blades, ere this battle is ended, some one would be slain, and so murder done.