assassinate

English

Etymology

From assassin +‎ -ate, after (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French assassiner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈsasɪneɪt/

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Verb

1. To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons. [from 17th c.]
   • Template:RQ:Florio Montaigne Essayes
2. (figuratively) To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.
   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Your rhymes assassinate our fame.

   • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Such usage as your honourable lords / Afford me, assassinated and betrayed.

Related terms

• assassin
• assassination
• royal assassin

Translations

to murder by sudden or obscure attack

• Arabic: اِغْتَالَ (iḡtāla)
• Armenian: սպանել (hy) (spanel)
• Belarusian: забіва́ць impf (zabivácʹ), забі́ць pf (zabícʹ)
• Bulgarian: убивам (bg) (ubivam)
• Catalan: assassinar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刺殺／刺杀 (zh) (cìshā), 刺杀 (zh) (cìshā), 暗殺／暗杀 (zh) (ànshā), 暗杀 (zh) (ànshā)

• Czech: zavraždit (cs)
• Dutch: vermoorden (nl)
• Estonian: mõrvama (et)
• Finnish: murhata (fi)
• French: assassiner (fr)
• German: ermorden (de), meucheln (de), Meuchelmord begehen
• Greek: εκτελώ (el) (ekteló)
• Hebrew: התנקש (hitnakésh)
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} ráða af lífi, ^{(please verify)} ráða af dögum
• Interlingue:
• Irish: feallmharaigh
• Italian: assassinare (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 暗殺する (ja) (あんさつする, ansatsu-suru)
• Korean: 암살하다 (ko) (amsal-hada) (暗殺 (ko) + 하다 (ko) (hada))
• Latin:

  Classical: per insidias interficere

  Vulgar: assassinare

• Portuguese: assassinar (pt)
• Romanian: asasina (ro)
• Russian: убива́ть (ru) impf (ubivátʹ), уби́ть (ru) pf (ubítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: smaknuti (sh)
• Spanish: asesinar (es)
• Swedish: lönnmörda (sv)
• Tagalog: linguhin
• Tajik: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: ám sát (vi) (暗殺)
• Welsh: bradlofruddio

Noun

assassinate (plural assassinates)

1. (obsolete) Assassination, murder.
2. (obsolete) An assassin.
   • Template:RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncly, 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 […].

Translations

assassination — see assassination

assassin — see assassin

See also

• Wikipedia article on Assassins
• murder
• regicide

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Italian

Verb

assassinate

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