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Definition of Assassinate

Assassinate
Assassinate As*sas"sin*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assassinated; p. pr. & vb. n. Assassinating.] [LL. assassinatus, p. p. of assassinare.] 1. To kill by surprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence. Help, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be assassinated. --Dryden. 2. To assail with murderous intent; hence, by extended meaning, to maltreat exceedingly. [Archaic] Your rhymes assassinate our fame. --Dryden. Such usage as your honorable lords Afford me, assassinated and betrayed. --Milton. Syn: To kill; murder; slay. See Kill.
Assassinate
Assassinate As*sas"sin*ate, n. [F. assassinat.] 1. An assassination, murder, or murderous assault. [Obs.] If I had made an assassinate upon your father. --B. Jonson. 2. An assassin. [Obs.] --Dryden.

Meaning of Assassinate from wikipedia

- their agents order ********inations. Acts of ********ination have been performed since ancient times. A person who carries out an ********ination is called an ********in...
- 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was ********inated by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at...
- 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was ********inated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas...
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- The ********ination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was one of the key events that led to World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive...
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- The 20 July plot was a failed attempt to ********inate Adolf Hitler, the chancellor and leader of **** Germany, and subsequently to overthrow the **** regime...
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was ********inated on 30 January 1948 at age 78 in the compound of Birla House (now Gandhi Smriti), a large mansion in central...