assassinate

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From French assassin or Italian assassino, from Arabic حشاشين (haššašīn, hashish addicts).

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assassinate (third-person singular simple present assassinates, present participle assassinating, simple past and past participle assassinated)

  1. To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons.
  2. (figuratively) To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.

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to murder by sudden or obscure attack

[edit] Noun

assassinate (plural assassinates)

  1. (obsolete) Assassination, murder.
  2. (obsolete) An assassin.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, vol 1., III.i.2:
      Yet again, many of them desperate hairbrains, rash, careless, fit to be assassinates, as being void of all fear and sorrow [...].

[edit] Translations

assassination — see assassination
assassin — see assassin

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Verb

assassinate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of assassinare
  2. second-person plural imperative of assassinare
  3. Feminine plural of assassinato
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