assassinate
verb /əˈsæsɪneɪt/
/əˈsæsɪneɪt/
[often passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they assassinate | /əˈsæsɪneɪt/ /əˈsæsɪneɪt/ |
| he / she / it assassinates | /əˈsæsɪneɪts/ /əˈsæsɪneɪts/ |
| past simple assassinated | /əˈsæsɪneɪtɪd/ /əˈsæsɪneɪtɪd/ |
| past participle assassinated | /əˈsæsɪneɪtɪd/ /əˈsæsɪneɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form assassinating | /əˈsæsɪneɪtɪŋ/ /əˈsæsɪneɪtɪŋ/ |
- assassinate somebody to murder an important or famous person, especially for political reasons
- a plot to assassinate the president
- The prime minister was assassinated by extremists.
WordfinderTopics War and conflictc1- alert
- assassinate
- attack
- campaign
- execute
- extremist
- hijack
- hostage
- kidnap
- terrorism
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + assassinate- attempt to
- try to
- plan to
- …
- an attempt to assassinate somebody
- a plot to assassinate somebody
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from medieval Latin assassinat- ‘killed’, from the verb assassinare, from assassinus, from Arabic ḥašīšī ‘hashish-eater’.