to assassinate

Examples

• All

• Kennedy was assassinated on a Friday.

  Behind the Burly Q (2010)

• Bonhoeffer was hanged on 9 April 1945 for complicity in the plot to assassinate Hitler.

  Academic text (1996)

• A month before someone tried to assassinate me, they poisoned me.

• The president, too, was assassinated three months later, along with his wife.

  Academic text (1996)

• The President was assassinated on November 22nd, a year after the crisis ended.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The Cardinal intends to assassinate the King at his birthday celebration on Friday.

  Fiction book (1993)

• What today would give the FARC reason to believe that its members would not be assassinated if they lay down their weapons?

• Furthermore, the JVP was not fully crushed, and in the 1980s continued to assassinate political leaders.

  Academic text (1997)

• They sabotaged the centrifuges, they assassinated scientists, and now they shut down an entire plant.

• In 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of attempting to assassinate President John F. Kennedy.

Synonyms

S

to slay

vsto assassinate

• NSFW

62 7.5

To kill someone on purpose

targets prominent figures for political or ideological reasons

R

to remove

vsto assassinate

• Offensive

58 9.9

To kill someone on purpose, usually by a criminal group

aims at high-profile people for political or ideological motives

Antonyms

P

to protect

∞ 1.0

To keep someone or something safe from harm

Phrasal Verbs

C

to conspire to assassinate

• Offensive

1 9.9

To secretly plan with others to kill an important person

How Lethal

to kill

• NSFW

∞ 1.0

to murder

• NSFW

∞ 3.0

to assassinate

• NSFW

199 7.0

to attack

∞ 1.3

to wound

617 2.3

to injure

53 1.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology