slain

Examples

• All

• News of an open-casket funeral for the slain 14-year-old Emmett Till has spread throughout the country.

  Till (2022)

• Perhaps the slain were evil-doers.

  Dark Angel: The Ascent (1994)

• I serve the line of the slain King.

  Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver (2024)

• the buried, dead and slain rise again.

  Beetlejuice (1988)

• "We are not easily slain, as you should know," Master Salt said.

  Fiction book (2002)

• There was no counting the slain.

  Samson and Delilah (1949)

• It was named to honor our slain father.

  Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023)

• From the blood of the slain, the bow of Jonathan held not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.

  King David (1985)

• The slain oxen were distributed to the victorious army for a great feast.

  Fiction book (1998)

• We have all become Hamlets in our country—children of a slain father—a leader whose killers still possess the throne.

  Fiction book (1991)

Synonyms

D

deceased

vsslain

• Formal

1 3.5

A person who is not alive, used in formal or respectful speech

is about death by violent action rather than neutral causes

F

fallen

vsslain

• Formal

5.7

Soldiers who died in a war

is broader, naming violent killing beyond soldiers or battle

Antonyms

A

alive

∞ 1.0

Still present and not dead

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology