noun
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(with "the") Those who have been killed.
verb
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To kill, murder.
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Our foes must all be slain.
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To eradicate or stamp out.
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You must slay these thoughts.
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(by extension) To defeat, overcome (in a competition or contest).
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1956, “Giants Slay Bears in Pro Title Battle”, in Lodi News-Sentinel, 1956 December 31, page 8.
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To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter.
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Ha ha! You slay me!
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To amaze, stun or otherwise incapacitate by awesomeness; to be awesome at something; to kill (slang sense).
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To have sex with
Examples of slain in a Sentence
He has slain a family member.
Fortunately there had been no sign of slain deer or wild dogs.
I've slain demons for far less.
Thrice have they slain me, thrice have I risen from the dead.
Osred was slain in 716.
Shortly afterwards both brothers were slain by Penda of Mercia in his invasion of East Anglia, and Anna became king.
Macbeth is said to have slain Duncan in the first structure that gave its name to Castlehill, which was probably the building demolished in 1297 by the adherents of Wallace.
You must either jump overboard into the sea or be slain with your own sword.
He is said to have slain Ragnarr Lo' brok.
As the sentence is about to be carried into execution Lancelot and his kinsmen come to her rescue, but in the fight that ensues many of Arthur's knights, including three of Gawain's brothers, are slain.
The left wing of the Persians under Tissaphernes avoided a serious conflict with the Greeks; Cyrus in the centre threw himself upon Artaxerxes, but was slain in a desperate struggle.
He seems to have been slain fighting against the Babylonians, who were still under the rule of Hadad-dadin-akhi, and a new dynasty was established at Assur by In-aristi-pileser, who claimed to be a descendant of the ancient prince Erba-Raman.
His son Elah had reigned only two years (like Ishbaal and Nadab) when he was slain in the midst of a drunken carousal by his captain Zimri.
Zechariah was slain after six months by Shallum ben Jabesh in Ibleam; but the usurper fell a month later to Menahem, who only after much bloodshed established his posi tion.
In the meantime, however, blood feuds had been engendered between the chiefs Usibepu 1 For his action on this occasion Colonel (afterwards General Sir) Redvers Buller, who was Wood's principal assistant, received the V.C. Piet Uys was among the slain.
In another a flock of vultures is feeding on the bodies of the fallen enemy; in a third a tumulus is being heaped up over those who had been slain on the side of Lagash.
In 455 the Saxon Chronicle records a battle between Hengest and Horsa and Vortigern at a place called Aegaels threp, in which Horsa was slain.
In Greek art Leto usually appears carrying her children in her arms, pursued by the dragon sent by the jealous Hera, which is slain by the infant Apollo; in vase paintings especially she is often represented with Apollo and Artemis.
Arminius hurried home, but only to find all his relatives slain.
Mosailama was slain.
On the accession of Yazid, Hosain refused homage and raised an army, but was slain at Kerbela (680).
The siege was begun in March 692, and in October the city was taken and `Abdallah slain.
Many of the reciters were slain in battle, and it was not till the 8th to the 10th centuries and even later that the earliest collections of these poems were made.
A cave in the hill is said to have sheltered the dragon which was slain by the hero Siegfried.
Condemned without a hearing, she was put to death (316) by the friends of those whom she had slain, and Cassander is said to have denied her remains the rites of burial.
It is an amalgamation of the myth tof Beowa, the slayer of the water-demon and the dragon, with the historical legend of Beowulf, nephew and successor of Hygelac (Chochilaicus), king of the Geatas, who was defeated and slain (c. 520) while ravaging the Frisian coast.
A fight takes place, in which the son is slain by the father.
He is represented as the son of a widow, "la dame veuve," his father having been slain in tourney, battle or by treachery, either immediately before, or shortly after his birth.
Dressing himself in the armour of the slain knight, which he has great difficulty in handling and eventually puts on over his peasant's garb, he sets out on a series of adventures which differ greatly in the various versions, but the outcome of which is that he becomes a skilful and valiant knight and regains the heritage of his father.
The rival party then called in the Spaniards, by whom Arouj was expelled and slain while fleeing at the Rio Salado.
On receipt of the tidings of Mordred's treachery, Gawain accompanies Arthur to England, and is slain in the battle which ensues on their landing.
According to Euripides (Hercules Furens) he survived this expedition, and was slain by his son in his madness.
The Semite or savage who sets up a sacred stone or Bethel believes indeed that a divine power or influence enters the stone and dwells in it, and he treats the stone as if it were the god, kisses it, anoints it with oil, feeds the god in it by pouring out over it the blood of victims slain.
During a war between the Eleusinians and Athenians under Erechtheus, he went to the assistance of the former, who on a previous occasion had shown him hospitality, but was slain with his two sons, Phorbas and Immaradus.
In 642, however, Oswald was slain by Penda in a battle at a place called Maserfeld, which has not been identified with certainty.
He was defeated and slain, however, by Oswio, at a river called the Winwaed.
In 825 Beornwulf was defeated by Ecgberht, king of Wessex, and in the same year he was overthrown and slain by the East Angles.
In 827 Ludeca, the successor of Beornwulf, was slain in battle with five of his earls.
The business of the assembly was to decide what portions of slain animals the gods should receive in sacrifice.
Close to the town, on the site of Elderslie House, Somerled, lord of the Isles, was defeated and slain in 1164 by the forces of Malcolm IV., against whom he had rebelled.
My last chore is determining if I have slain the nefarious tipster or if she now sits in my van with a look of fury painted on her beautiful face.
He'd last felt that surge a few hundred thousand years ago, when Czerno had slain his predecessor and claimed the Black God's mantle.
The rebel forces were defeated in the ensuing battle and the mighty Warwick himself slain fleeing the battlefield.
Their hearts are set, as they were in life, on the glorious consummation begun before they were slain.
A hard-fought battle ensued, in which there was great effusion of blood on both sides, vast numbers being slain with brutal rage.
Sir John Perth, and other esquires belonging to the royal escort, were slain.
Within the eternal godhead our Savior always was the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world.
And what he foretold was fulfilled in truth, for thine arm remained incorrupt even after thou wast slain for the Lord.
He was to be the sacrificial lamb, slain for the sins of the world.
Poor fellow, he was slain, and my heart was deeply pained at his loss and in sympathy with his stricken family.