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verb
- 1. murder (an important person) for political or religious reasons: "the organization's leader had been assassinated four months before the coup"
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to murder a famous or important person, esp. for political reasons or in exchange for money: President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in 1963. assassination. noun [ C/U ] us / əˌsæs·əˈneɪ·ʃən / the assassination of John Lennon. (Definition of assassinate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
The meaning of ASSASSINATE is to murder (a usually prominent person) by sudden or secret attack often for political reasons. How to use assassinate in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Assassinate.
Assassinate definition: to kill suddenly or secretively, especially a prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously.. See examples of ASSASSINATE used in a sentence.
Definition of 'assassinate' Word Frequency. assassinate. (əsæsɪneɪt ) Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense assassinates , present participle assassinating , past tense, past participle assassinated. verb. When someone important is assassinated, they are murdered as a political act.
To assassinate someone means to target and deliberately kill that person. The word assassinate is almost always used to describe the killing of a famous person. When a political leader or very well-known person is murdered, the killer is said to assassinate the victim.
assassinate somebody to murder an important or famous person, especially for political reasons. a plot to assassinate the president; The prime minister was assassinated by extremists.
1. to kill suddenly or secretively, esp. to murder a politically prominent person. 2. to destroy or harm treacherously and viciously: to assassinate a person's character. [1590–1600] as•sas`si•na′tion, n. as•sas′si•na`tor, n.
