The Clue
Done in (5 letter answer)
The Answer
SLAIN
Tags
Notes
The answer SLAIN is common and appears about once every 225 puzzles.
Related Clues
Assassinated
Destroyed
Dispatched
Fallen
Liquidated
Massacred
Murdered
An anagram for nails
Done away with
Felled, as a dragon
Gotten rid of
Like Grendel
Struck down
"And has thou ___ the Jabberwock?"
" . . . with him is beauty ___": Shak.
Whacked, so to speak
Like two Kennedy brothers
Made more than moribund
Definition
SLAIN as a noun:
1. people who have been slain (as in battle)
SLAY as a verb:
1. (murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove) = kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
SLAIN as an adjective:
1. killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors"; "a picture of St. George and the slain dragon"