Synonyms for slain
sleɪnslain

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1. slainadjective

   people who have been slain (as in battle)

   Antonyms:
   alive(p), live

2. slainadjective

   killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors"

   "a picture of St. George and the slain dragon"

   Antonyms:
   alive(p), live

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1. List of paraphrases for "slain":

   killed, murdered, assassinated, beheaded

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1. Rudyard Kipling:

   Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - it shall never be again

2. Thomas Paine:

   Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part.

3. Rudyard Kipling, As Easy as A.B.C. (1917):

   Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - it shall never be again!

4. Oliver Goldsmith:

   For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.

5. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky:

   So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find something to worship...What is essential is that all may be together in it. The craving for community worship is the chief misery of...all humanity. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword.