assassin
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- noun
- /əˈsæsɪn/
- NSFW
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miembro de la orden de los Asesinos (nizaríes)
- In the 12th century, the Assassins were feared for their covert operations against Christian Crusaders.
Examples
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The palace guards and the Assassins seek our lives.
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Hasan the assassin.
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Do you know how Assassins came to be named?
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I taught her a few things from my days as emperor's assassin.
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But he couldn't save himself from the king's assassins.
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And now, The Crusader and the Pope shared a bond of having survived an assassin's bullet.
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The gun exploded in the assassin's hand, and its discharge tore away part of the Prince's face.
Academic text (1999) -
"I wish we could have captured one of those assassins," he says, giving the bodyguard a reproachful glance.
Fiction book (2000) -
Shortly after, assassins gunned down Benazir Bhutto, the leading secular oppositionist.
Academic text (2008) -
The young assassins had sought religious guidance from him—a writ for tyrannicide.
Academic text (2001)
Compounds
- Specialized
A long-legged bug that eats other insects and sometimes sucks blood from mammals
Surface Forms
Etymology
Assassin was originally the name for a member of a secret Muslim order called hashshashin. They used surprise attacks during the Crusades and were said to be 'hashish users'. This is why the word later came to mean a secret killer.