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Synonyms for assassinate
əˈsæs əˌneɪtas·sas·si·nate
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
assassinate
To kill is simply to deprive of life, human, animal, or vegetable, with no suggestion of how or why. Assassinate, execute, murder, apply only to the taking of human life; to murder is to kill with premeditation and malicious intent; to execute is to kill in fulfilment of a legal sentence; to assassinate is to kill by assault; this word is chiefly applied to the killing of public or eminent persons through alleged political motives, whether secretly or openly. To slay is to kill by a blow, or by a weapon. Butcher and slaughter apply primarily to the killing of cattle; massacre is applied primarily and almost exclusively to human beings, signifying to kill them indiscriminately in large numbers; to massacre is said when there is no chance of successful resistance; to butcher when the killing is especially brutal; soldiers mown down in a hopeless charge are said to be slaughtered when no brutality on the enemy's part is implied. To despatch is to kill swiftly and in general quietly, always with intention, with or without right.
Synonyms:
butcher, despatch, execute, kill, massacre, murder, put to death, slaughter, slayPreposition:
To kill with or by sword, famine, pestilence, care, grief, etc.; killed for his money, by a robber, with a dagger.
Princeton's WordNet
assassinateverb
murder; especially of socially prominent persons
"Anwar Sadat was assassinated because many people did not like his peace politics with Israel"
assassinateverb
destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation
"He assassinated his enemy's character"
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List of paraphrases for "assassinate":
assassinates, assassination, assassinating, assassinated, murder, kill
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#3096 | kill | |
#4553 | murder | |
#6859 | execute | |
#14083 | slaughter | |
#14956 | massacre | |
#16340 | butcher | |
#16974 | assassination | |
#23314 | despatch | |
#32348 | slay | |
#37202 | assassinated | |
#52244 | assassinate | |
#130364 | assassinating |
How to use assassinate in a sentence?
You can crucify a Jesus, you can poison a Socrates, you can hang John Brown or Nathan Hale, you can kill a Che Guevara, you can jail a Eugene Debs or a Bobby Seale. You can assassinate John Kennedy or a Martin Luther King, but the problems remain, the hangman's rope never solved a single problem except that of one man.
I'm confident that if activists claiming to be conservative tried to assassinate a politician, whatever his mental state,the media would open a 24/7 national conversation about rhetoric on the right.
He [ MBS ] told him [ MBN ], I want to assassinate King Abdullah. I get a poison ring from Russia. It's enough for me just to shake hands with him and he will be done, that what he say. Whether he's just bragging or, but he said that and we took it seriously.
They weren’t planning to ransom me, they weren’t going to keep me, they were planning to assassinate me. And the plot has been covered as a kidnapping plot, there was one person who showed up on, you know, on a Supreme Court justice’s lawn and turned himself in, and it was covered as an assassination attempt. And so I think that when you look at the facts of both of those, and you see how differently they’re covered, I do, you know, have concern about the language that we use, especially when women are a target as opposed to men.
You know, I was doing stand-up for so long, there was a time in the Bill Clinton days you could make fun of that Monica [Lewinsky] dress all day long and nobody thought you were a terrorist, but now, like, you said things have gotten not only politically incorrect but this administration and learned it firsthand because I got a call the next day from the Department of Justice and I was under a two-month federal investigation for conspiracy to assassinate the president of the United States.
Translations for assassinate
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- اغتالArabic
- убивамBulgarian
- assassinarCatalan, Valencian
- zavražditCzech
- meucheln, Meuchelmord begehen, ermordenGerman
- φονεύω, δολοφονώGreek
- asesinarSpanish
- mõrvamaEstonian
- murhataFinnish
- assassinerFrench
- התנקשHebrew
- սպանելArmenian
- assassinareItalian
- 暗殺Japanese
- 暗殺, 암살, 하다Korean
- vermoordenDutch
- assassinarPortuguese
- убить, убиватьRussian
- smaknutiSerbo-Croatian
- lönnmördaSwedish
- 暗殺, ám sátVietnamese
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