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as·sas·si·nate
 assassinate
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- 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:
- bump off, dispatch, do away with, kill, knife, liquidate, remove, shoot, slay, stab, wipe out
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| 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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| related words: |
destroy, execute, murder |
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| derivations: |
assassination (n.), assassinator (n.) |
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