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SLAIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
People who have been slain (as in battle)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("slain" is a kind of...):
dead (people who are no longer living)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Killed; 'slain' is formal or literary as in
Example:
a picture of St. George and the slain dragon
Classified under:
Similar:
dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
Past participle of the verb slay
Context examples:
It was long ere I could close an eye, and heaven knows I had matter enough for thought in the man whom I had slain that afternoon, in my own most perilous position, and above all, in the remarkable game that I saw Silver now engaged upon—keeping the mutineers together with one hand and grasping with the other after every means, possible and impossible, to make his peace and save his miserable life.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
One had already been slain by a bolt, so that there were but four upon their feet.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I saw them throng around him, and he is either taken or slain.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There were twenty who loosed shafts at him, and when the man was afterwards slain it was found that he had taken eighteen through his forearm.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There is a hospice of monks yonder, where you may see the roof among the trees, and there it was that Sir Roland was slain.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Black Simon was down—dying, as he would wish to have died, like a grim old wolf in its lair with a ring of his slain around him.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have heard the minstrels sing of one Sir Roland who was slain by the infidels in these very parts.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“The castle is taken and on fire, the seneschal is slain, and there is nought left for us.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He hath slain an archer.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For this man was so swollen with pride that he would neither drink with us, nor sit at the same table with us, nor as much as answer a question, but must needs talk to the varlet all the time that it was well there was peace, and that he had slain more Englishmen than there were tags to his doublet.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
