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assassinate

as·sas·si·nate

assassinate

 
pronunciation:
sae sih neIt
features:
Word Combinations (verb)
part of speech: transitive verb
inflections: assassinates, assassinating, assassinated
definition 1: to murder for pay or for ideological reasons.
The respected civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.An actor named John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln.
similar words:
dispatch, do away with, kill, knife, liquidate, remove, shoot, slay, stab, wipe out
definition 2: to destroy, abuse, or defame.
She publicly assassinated his character.
synonyms:
defame, destroy, ruin
similar words:
abuse, assail, denigrate, disgrace, malign, run down, slander, vilify
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derivations: assassination (n.), assassinator (n.)