Slain vs Assassinate - What's the difference?
slain | assassinate |
(with "the") Those who have been killed.
* 1906 , Mary Elizabeth Lewis, The ethics of Wagner's The ring of the Nibelung , page 41:
To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons.
* , II.29:
(figuratively) To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.
* Dryden
* Milton
(obsolete) Assassination, murder.
(obsolete) An assassin.
* , vol.1, III.i.2:
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)- 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
* * *assassinate
English
Verb
- The Assassines, a nation depending of Phœnicia, are esteemed among the Mahometists.
- Your rhymes assassinate our fame.
- Such usage as your honourable lords / Afford me, assassinated and betrayed.
Noun
(en noun)- 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 ----
