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assassinate
[ uh-sas-uh-neyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to kill suddenly or secretively, especially a prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously.
Synonyms:
- to destroy or harm treacherously and viciously:
to assassinate a person's character.
assassinate
/ əˈæɪˌԱɪ /
verb
- to murder (a person, esp a public or political figure), usually by a surprise attack
- to ruin or harm (a person's reputation, etc) by slander
Derived Forms
- ˌˈԲپDz, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- ···Բ·پDz [uh, -sas-, uh, -, ney, -sh, uh, n] noun
- ···Բ·پ adjective
- ···Բ·ٴǰ noun
- ܲ····Բ· adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of assassinate1
Example Sentences
The group's top leaders were assassinated, many of its fighters killed and much of its arsenal destroyed.
Another social media user also threatened to “personally make sure” that a prosecutor in Young Thug’s case “is assassinated,” according to another screenshot.
If Martin Luther King Jr. hadn’t been assassinated, might he have succeeded at marrying his anti-war and economic inequality work with the civil rights advocacy for which he remains famous?
The alleged Indian plot to assassinate a separatist on US soil has not widely registered - only half of respondents are aware of it.
When Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968, President Johnson cited Arthur Penn’s film “Bonnie and Clyde” as a potential cause of national violence, rather than a reflection of the national mood.
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