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verb
- 1. murder (an important person) in a surprise attack for political or religious reasons: "the organization's leader had been assassinated four months before the coup"
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Learn the meaning of assassinate, a verb that means to murder a prominent person by sudden or secret attack often for political reasons. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related articles.
Assassinate means to kill someone famous or important, especially for political reasons or money. Learn how to pronounce it, see synonyms and translations, and read about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Assassinated is the past tense and past participle of assassinate, which means to kill someone famous or important. Learn more about the word, its synonyms, and its usage in sentences from various sources.
Assassinate definition: to kill suddenly or secretively, especially a prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously.. See examples of ASSASSINATE used in a sentence.
To assassinate someone means to target and deliberately kill that person. The word assassinate is almost always used to describe the killing of a famous person. When a political leader or very well-known person is murdered, the killer is said to assassinate the victim.
to murder (esp. a politically important or prominent person) by surprise attack, usually for payment or from zealous belief. 2. to harm or ruin (someone's reputation, etc.), as by slander, vilification, etc. SIMILAR WORDS: kill.
Learn the meaning of assassination, a noun that refers to murder by sudden or secret attack often for political reasons. See examples, synonyms, word history, and related phrases of assassination.
