Synonyms for assassination
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1. character assassination, assassination, blackwashnoun

   an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation

   Synonyms:
   character assassination, black lotion, blackwash

2. assassinationnoun

   murder of a public figure by surprise attack

   Synonyms:
   character assassination, blackwash

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1. assassinationnoun

   Synonyms:
   murder (by secret assault)

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1. List of paraphrases for "assassination":

   murder, assassinating, assassinate, assassinated, killing, assassinations

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1. Assistant US Attorney Artie McConnell:

   The complaint makes clear that in the wake of the results of the presidential election, this defendant greatly exceeded what can be considered political hyperbole, he used words like' carnage,'' extermination,'' assassination.' He encouraged people to take' offensive action' in an effort to threaten to kill members of the government including law enforcement agents, even going so far as calling for the bombing of an FBI building and citing the Turner Diaries, which has been the inspiration for numerous acts of terrorism including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

2. Ahmed Mismari:

   Those families who run away from Benghazi, their sons were from terrorist groups, their sons carried out acts of kidnapping, killing, assassination, explosions, and destroyed families.

3. George Bernard Shaw:

   Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

4. Qassem Soleimani:

   I shed no tears for Irans General Suleimani, but his assassination at Trumps personal order risks a massive Persian Gulf war and also violated both domestic and international law unless it was demonstrably necessary to prevent an imminent lethal attack by Suleimani.

5. David Schmid:

   The O.J. case has now assumed the same status as the Kennedy assassination.