assassinate
verb/əˈsæsɪneɪt/UK/əˈsæs(ə)nˌeɪt/US
Etymology
From assassin + -ate, after Middle French assassiner.
Definitions
To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack,…
To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons.
To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure…
To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.
- He assassinated his rival's character.
- Such uſage as your honourable Lords / Afford me aſſaſſinated and betray'd, […]
- But vvhen your Rhimes aſſaſſinate our Fame, / You hug your nauſeous, blund'ring Ballad-vvits, / And pay 'em as if Nonſence vvere a merit, / If it can mean but Treaſon.
Assassination, murder.
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An assassin.
- Yet again, many of them deſperat hairebraines, raſh, careleſſe, fit to be Aſſaſinates, as being voide of all Feare and Sorrow […]
The neighborhood
- neighborassassin
- neighborassassination
- neighbormurder
- neighborregicide
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA