assassinate

Definitions

1. To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. Assassination, murder.
   obsolete
3. To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack
4. An assassin.
   obsolete
5. Assassination, murder
6. An assassin

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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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