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Slain vs Assassinate - What's the difference?

slain | assassinate |

As nouns the difference between slain and assassinate

is that slain is while assassinate is (obsolete) assassination, murder.

As an adjective slain

is .

As a verb assassinate is

to murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons.

slain

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • (with "the") Those who have been killed.
  • * 1906 , Mary Elizabeth Lewis, The ethics of Wagner's The ring of the Nibelung , page 41:
    • While the Valkyries were the choosers of the valorous slain , they were also obedient to the call of any in distress who asked their help.

    Anagrams

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    assassinate

    English

    Verb

  • To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons.
  • * , II.29:
    • The Assassines, a nation depending of Phœnicia, are esteemed among the Mahometists.
  • (figuratively) To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.
  • * Dryden
    • Your rhymes assassinate our fame.
  • * Milton
    • Such usage as your honourable lords / Afford me, assassinated and betrayed.

    Related terms

    * assassin * assassination * royal assassin

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Assassination, murder.
  • (obsolete) An assassin.
  • * , vol.1, III.i.2:
    • Yet again, many of them desperate hairbrains, rash, careless, fit to be assassinates , as being void of all fear and sorrow […].

    See also

    * Wikipedia article on Assassins * murder * regicide ----