transitive verb
-·nat·ed, -·nat·ing- to murder (esp. a politically important or prominent person) by surprise attack, usually for payment or from zealous belief
- to harm or ruin (someone's reputation, etc.), as by slander, vilification, etc.
verb
- Assassinate is defined as the act of killing someone (usually a famous person) deliberately, or the act of killing someone after being hired to do so.
An example of assassinate is pulling the trigger on a gun to kill a President.
- The definition of assassinate is to harm or destroy an idea or someone's reputation.
An example of assassinate is when a local school teacher looses his job after someone tells the community of the teacher's past history of theft.
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assassinate
transitive verb
as·sas·si·nat·ed, as·sas·si·nat·ing, as·sas·si·nates- To murder (a prominent person) by surprise attack, as for political reasons.
- To destroy or injure treacherously: assassinate a rival's character.
Related Forms:
- as·sas′si·na′tion
noun
- as·sas′si·na′tive
adjective
- as·sas′si·na′tor
noun
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present assassinates, present participle assassinating, simple past and past participle assassinated)
- assassin
- assassination
- royal assassin
Origin
From assassin + -ate, after Middle French assassiner.
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Sentence Examples
- In 1887 he planned with some friends to assassinate Emperor Alexander III.
- Clovis, however, persuaded Chloderic to assassinate his father, and then posed as Sigebert's avenger, with the result that Chloderic was himself assassinated and the Ripuarians raised Clovis on the shield and chose him as king.
- Soon after the Canudos affair a conspiracy was hatched to assassinate the president.
- It was instituted primarily as a precaution against the ever-present danger of a helot revolt, and secondarily perhaps as a training for young Spartans, who were sent out by the ephors to keep watch on the helots and assassinate any who might appear dangerous.
- On the 13th of July 1874 the town was the scene of the attempt of the fanatic Kullmann to assassinate Prince Bismarck, to whom a statue has been erected.
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Words near assassinate in the dictionary
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