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assassinate
UK /əˈsæsɪneɪt/ US /əˈsæs(ə)nˌeɪt/
verb 2noun 2
Collocations
3(verb.)
VERB + ASSASSINATE
attempt to, try to
plan to, plot to
The rebels were arrested before they could plan to assassinate the president.
PHRASES
an attempt/a plot to assassinate sb
Definitions
verb
1
To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons.
The Assassines, a nation depending of Phœnicia, are esteemed among the Mahometists[…]. And thus was our Earle Raymond of Tripoli murthered or assassinated (this word is borrowed from their name) in the middest of his Citie, during the time of our warres in the holy land[…].
2
To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.
He assassinated his rival's character.
Such uſage as your honourable Lords / Afford me aſſaſſinated and betray'd, […]
noun
1
Assassination, murder.
Mor. Why? if I had made an assassinate upon your Father; vitiated your Mother: ravished your Sisters― Tru. I would kill you, Sir, I would kill you, if you had. Mor. Why? you do more in this, Sir: it were a vengeance centuple, for all facinorous Acts, that could be nam'd, to do that you do.
2
An assassin.
Yet again, many of them deſperat hairebraines, raſh, careleſſe, fit to be Aſſaſinates, as being voide of all Feare and Sorrow […]
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The Assassines, a nation depending of Phœnicia, are esteemed among the Mahometists[…]. And thus was our Earle Raymond of Tripoli murthered or assassinated (this word is borrowed from their name) in th
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He assassinated his rival's character.
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Such uſage as your honourable Lords / Afford me aſſaſſinated and betray'd, […]
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Mor. Why? if I had made an assassinate upon your Father; vitiated your Mother: ravished your Sisters― Tru. I would kill you, Sir, I would kill you, if you had. Mor. Why? you do more in this, Sir: it
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Yet again, many of them deſperat hairebraines, raſh, careleſſe, fit to be Aſſaſinates, as being voide of all Feare and Sorrow […]
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He was ignorant of the plot to assassinate him.
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