单词 | assassinate |
释义 | assassinate From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishassassinateas‧sas‧sin‧ate /əˈsæsəneɪt $ -səneɪt/ ●○○ verb [transitive]KILLto murder an important person a plot to assassinate the president► see thesaurus at kill→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusassassinate• The latter prevailed, but on 18 March 978 was assassinated by his rival's followers at Corfe in Dorset.• President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.• Many people today, worldwide, remember exactly what they were doing when John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.• The plotters' failure came too late for Jumblatt: he was assassinated in March 1977, victim of yet another plot.• Salinas said he had had excellent relations with two politicians who were assassinated late in his term.• Two weeks later they assassinated Masaryk.• an attempt to assassinate the Pope |
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