assassinate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++as·sas·sin·ate /əˈsæsəneɪt $ -səneɪt/ ●○○ verb [transitive] KILLto murder an important person 暗杀，行刺 a plot to assassinate the president 刺杀总统的阴谋► see thesaurus at kill→ See Verb table
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assassinate• 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.• The CIA may have tried to assassinate Castro.• 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.• One is that a team of Army sharpshooters was sent to Memphis to assassinate King.• 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 Popeas·sas·sin·ate verbChineseSyllable
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assassinate
as‧sas‧sin‧ate /əˈsæsəneɪt, əˈsæsɪneɪt $ -səneɪt/
verb [transitive]
to murder an important person:
a plot to assassinate the President
▪ kill to make someone die: The driver and his passenger were killed in the crash. | He was killed by rival gang members.
▪murder to deliberately kill someone – used when talking about this as a crime: He was convicted of murdering his wife.
▪commit manslaughter to kill someone without intending to – used when talking about this as a crime: The court ruled that the guard had committed manslaughter.
▪assassinate to deliberately kill an important person, especially a politician: He was part of a plot to assassinate Hitler.
▪slay to kill someone or something in a violent way – used in newspaper reports and also in old stories: Two teenagers were slain in the shootings. | St. George slew the dragon. | The king was slain at the battle of Hastings.
▪execute formal (also put somebody to death ) to kill someone as a punishment for a crime: McVeigh, who killed 168 people in a bombing attack, was executed by lethal injection.
▪eliminate to kill someone in order to prevent them from causing trouble: a ruthless dictator who eliminated all his rivals
▪take somebody out informal to kill someone in order to get rid of them, especially an enemy or someone who is causing trouble for you: US forces used air strikes to take out the enemy positions. | One of the other drug dealers may have decided to take him out.
▪bump somebody off humorous informal to kill someone: He was so irritating I felt like bumping him off myself.
▪do away with somebody informal to kill someone: The settlers in Jamestown had been done away with, but no one knew how.
as‧sas‧sin‧ate /əˈsæsəneɪt, əˈsæsɪneɪt $ -səneɪt/
verb [transitive]to murder an important person:
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