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/əsˈæsənˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Assassinate v. t. (past & past part. assassinated; pres. part. assassinating)

To kill by surprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence. "Help, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be assassinated."

To assail with murderous intent; hence, by extended meaning, to maltreat exceedingly. (Archaic) "Your rhymes assassinate our fame." "Such usage as your honorable lords Afford me, assassinated and betrayed."

Synonyms: To kill; murder; slay. See Kill.

noun

Assassinate n.

An assassination, murder, or murderous assault. (Obs.) "If I had made an assassinate upon your father."

An assassin. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Assassinate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Assassinate" Quotes from Famous Books

... may be a member of an anarchist league, or something, and this is his punishment for refusing to assassinate the Kaiser." ...

— Love Among the Chickens - A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm • P. G. Wodehouse

... that you were not, Ramon. Do you know what I believe? I don't think it was any accident, but a deliberate attempt to assassinate you; to keep you from coming ...

— The Crevice • William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander

... story of Peter's abduction; the previous attempts of members of Nunez's band to assassinate them, and the reasons he had for believing that Peter was close to, if not already at, the headquarters ...

— The Young Buglers • G.A. Henty

... spread in the cabarets by the men who had been present at Minette's denunciation that Jean Diantre had endeavored to assassinate the American, and much indignation was excited. Had he drawn a knife upon a fellow-workman over their wine, the matter would have excited but slight reprobation, but that he should have crept up in the dark to attempt to assassinate one who was a denouncer of tyrants, a representative of ...

— A Girl of the Commune • George Alfred Henty

... gives me some security for retaining? You will then, of course, proclaim your reasons in the ear of all Florence. You will bring forward your mad assassin, who is doubtless ready to obey your call, and you will tell the world that you believe his testimony because he is so rational as to desire to assassinate me. You will first inform the Signoria that I am a Medicean conspirator, and then you will inform the Mediceans that I have betrayed them, and in both cases you will offer the excellent proof that you believe me capable in general of everything bad. It will certainly be a striking ...

— Romola • George Eliot

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