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verb

Assassinate v. t. (past & past part. assassinated; pres. part. assassinating)

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."

To assail with murderous intent; hence, by extended meaning, to maltreat exceedingly. (Archaic) "Your rhymes assassinate our fame." "Such usage as your honorable lords Afford me, assassinated and betrayed."

Synonyms: To kill; murder; slay. See Kill.

noun

Assassinate n.

An assassination, murder, or murderous assault. (Obs.) "If I had made an assassinate upon your father."

An assassin. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Assassinate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Assassinate" Quotes from Famous Books

... order to make him a more desperate conspirator. He conspired from pure love of liberty, for which at any moment he was ready to die. Those who merely know Orsini by the last act of his life can have no proper appreciation of the wonderful purity and nobility of his character. In his attempt to assassinate Louis Napoleon, he was actuated by as exalted motives as led Charlotte Corday to do a bloody deed. Exiled, a price upon his head, deceived by those in whom he had put faith, in despair at the state of Italian affairs, Orsini committed what he himself, ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 • Various

... compel me to show YOU," said Courtland immovably, "what any Federal citizen may do in the defense of Federal law. For I'll kill the first man that attempts to lay hands upon him on my property. Some of you, who have already tried to assassinate him in cold blood, I have met before in less dishonorable warfare than this, and THEY know I am ...

— Sally Dows and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... as long as they stick together and keep in the open," Yank assured me. "That gang will sooner assassinate than fight." ...

— Gold • Stewart White

... whole history is in fact one long record of sensuality, treachery, and murder. From his earliest years he had breathed, as it were, an atmosphere of assassination. His father had been assassinated when he was eleven years old. His guardians and even his own mother had then plotted to assassinate him. They placed him on a wild horse, and made him perform exercises with the javelin on it. When his precocious vigour defeated their hopes, they tried to poison him. But by studying antidotes he made his body poison-proof, or at least was reputed ...

— The Gracchi Marius and Sulla - Epochs Of Ancient History • A.H. Beesley

... about half way up. Then Haught discovered two more full-grown bears up in the top of the pine, the presence of which Bill had not the remotest suspicion. "Ahuh! you ole black Jasper!" Bill was yelling. "I treed you an' in a minnit I'm agoin' to assassinate you. Chased me about a hundred miles—! An' thought you'd fool me, didn't you? Why, I've treed more bears than you ever saw—! You needn't look at me like thet, 'cause I'm mad as a hornet. I'm agoin' ...

— Tales of lonely trails • Zane Grey

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