assassinate
pronunciation
How to pronounce assassinate in British English:
UK [əˈsæsɪneɪt]
How to pronounce assassinate in American English:
US [əˈsæsɪneɪt]
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- Verb:
- murder; especially of socially prominent persons
- destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation
Word Origin
- assassinate (v.)
- 1610s, from past participle stem of Medieval Latin assassinare (see assassin). Of reputations, characters, etc., from 1620s. Related: Assassinated; assassinating.
Example
- 1. Nobody ever tried to assassinate me .
- 2. An african general sends frogmen under the white house to assassinate the president .
- 3. A massachusetts man was charged with participating in terrorist conspiracies to attack an american shopping mall and assassinate federal officials .
- 4. In addition to confessing to the pearlmurder he said that he had hatched plans to assassinate president clinton president carter and pope john paul ii .
- 5. They have been angered by an apparent campaign by israeli agents to assassinate hamas people abroad , most notably mahmoud al-mabhouh in dubai in january .