Sekirov Dictionary

assassinate

UK /əˈsæsɪneɪt/US /əˈsæs(ə)nˌeɪt/

noun 2
verb 2
forms 3

noun2

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(no longer used) Assassination, murder.
- Mor. Why? if I had made an assassinate upon your Father; vitiated your Mother: ravished your Sisters― Tru. I would kill you, Sir, I would kill you, if you had. Mor. Why? you do more in this, Sir: it were a vengeance centuple, for all facinorous Acts, that could be nam'd, to do that you do.
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(no longer used) An assassin.
- Yet again, many of them desperat hairebraines, rash, carelesse, fit to be Assasinates, as being voide of all Feare and Sorrow […] — 1624

verb2

To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons.
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(figurative) To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.
- He assassinated his rival's character.

forms

assassinated · assassinating · assassinates

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