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assassinate English

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assassinate Verb

— If you assassinate someone, usually a political leader, you murder them for political reasons. The person who assasinated Benazir Bhutto is not known.

assassinate

— verb destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation He assassinated his enemy's character — verb murder; especially of socially prominent persons Anwar Sadat was assassinated because many people did not like his peace politics with Israel

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assassinate English » English

murder kill slay slaughter massacre thorn stab pierce execute electrocute turn off thrust strangle straighten sting splash shut off set aright remove redress put to death prick liquidate irritate horizontalize harm fishbone extinguish do in correct commit regicide break the neck assassination amend adjust

Topics assassinate topics

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Person Life Die

Kill

Conjugation assassinate conjugation

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assassinate · verb

Examples assassinate examples

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Simple sentences

They attempted to assassinate the president.
The only way to get rid of a modern dictator is to assassinate him.

Movie subtitles

Do the Yoshiokas wish to assassinate me?
Louis was killed because he knew of a plot to assassinate Ropa.
An attempt was made to assassinate the European diplomat,...Monsieur Ropa.
Tryin' to assassinate me, are ya?
And if the Kachins assassinate a traitor in order to save their own lives, you think they would be murderers?
A man named john wilkes booth is going to assassinate him tonight!
I happen to know for a fact that a man named john wilkes booth will assassinate president lincoln in his box at ford's theater.
We've intercepted a letter from the Spaniards to the Queen of Scots with a plan to assassinate Her Majesty during this royal progress through the country.
What, assassinate someone?
You are now charged with inciting and abetting war against the Roman army.. and plotting to assassinate Queen Cleopatra.
According to our sources, there is a plot to assassinate her.
Grandfather, do you mean to say Tegana's going to assassinate the Khan?
Today at 1240 hours, an attempt to assassinate the Fuhrer was made by a group of vicious traitors!
If they want to get rid of me, they'll have to assassinate me!
Louis Bernard was killed. because he knew of a plot to assassinate Ropa.
An attempt has been made to assassinate the distinguished European diplomat. Monsieur Ropa, who is attending the concert.
I had orders to assassinate the Queen at Wolmar.
One must assassinate quickly, and out in the open. One must assassinate quickly and then be swallowed by the crowd, otherwise the drama fails.
You're accused of having attempted to assassinate Her Majesty.
Not to negotiate a peace but to assassinate you.
They're planning to assassinate the President, Jud.
Trying to assassinate me, you are.
A second attempt to assassinate His Majesty must be prevented at all costs.
Do you know, sir, a gun exactly like this was used to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.
Yes. According to what we were told, he would try to assassinate the Prince of Gonzague unless we killed him.
Klydrathes, the one who tried to assassinate you, I settled an old account with him.
Two days ago, at the court house two brave men, a student and a doctor, hijacked a carriage with terrorists from the convoy. The men who had tried to assassinate our governor.
Let him assassinate someone.
To kill you - assassinate you.
Assassinate you.
Assassinate.
We did not assassinate.
Seemed to think that someone was trying to assassinate him.
They want to assassinate him.
Who hired you to assassinate me?
Let's assassinate Napoleon.
Why should anyone want to assassinate a retiring president?
They were trying to assassinate you. - What?
This trick has been used since ancient times to assassinate someone.

News and current affairs

Is it more personal, an act of vengeance by a son against the man who attempted to assassinate his father?
The regime even dispatched two spies to Seoul to assassinate Hwang Jang-yop, the highest-level North Korean official ever to defect to South Korea.
In 1999, Huji members attempted to assassinate the moderate poet Shamshur Rahman with an axe.
In a reminder of that confrontation, Ortega accused his old enemies in the United States of drafting a plan to assassinate him.
Thus spoke Saif al-Islam al-Qaddafi in March 2010, referring to the leaders of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), an armed organization that had attempted to assassinate his father, Muammar al-Qaddafi, three times in the mid-1990's.
The Kingdom has no love for Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi, who tried to assassinate King Abdullah and has waged a concerted anti-Saudi propaganda campaign for at least a decade.
On April 22, 2004, a train explosion at Ryongchon killed 160 people and injured 1,300. Many believe that it was an attempt to assassinate Kim, whose custom-built train passed through Ryongchon a few hours before the blast.

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