Assassinate

Definition: Assassinate

Assassinate

Verb

1. Murder; of socially prominent persons.

Date "assassinate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Killing	Verb: kill, put to death, slay, shed blood; murder, assassinate, butcher, slaughter, victimize, immolate; massacre; take away life, deprive of life; make away with, put an end to; despatch, dispatch; burke, settle, do for.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Assassinate

English words defined with "assassinate": abortive, Assassinating ♦ Brutus ♦ Marcus Junius Brutus ♦ Oates ♦ stillborn ♦ Titus Oates ♦ unsuccessful. (references)

Specialty definitions using "assassinate": Robert Francois Damiens, Rye-house Plot. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

He couldn't assassinate anyone. (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas)

The first assassin kills the second assassin sent to kill the first assassin, who didn't assassinate anyone until we hired the second assassin to assassinate the first assassin. (Angel; writing credit: Let�cia Dornelles)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	CIA Targets Fidel: Secret 1967 CIA Inspector General's Report on Plots to Assassinate Fidel Castro (reference) JFK: The Cia, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy (reference) Kennedy Contract: The Mafia Plot to Assassinate the President (reference) Pinkerton's Report to the People of the U.S. on the Baltimore Plot to Assassinate Lincoln (reference) Please assassinate my brother (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Assassinate (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Dominican Republic	In August 1960, the Organization of American States (OAS) imposed diplomatic sanctions against the Dominican Republic as a result of Trujillo's complicity in an attempt to assassinate President Romulo Betancourt of Venezuela. (references)
Human Rights	Thailand	During 2000 police killed 50 criminal suspects, statistics were not yet available for 2001. There were press allegations that the government considered forming "killing teams" to assassinate suspected drug traffickers. (references)
	Gambia	There is one known political prisoner, a former AFPRC vice chairman, Lieutenant Sana Sabally, who is serving 9 years at Mile 2 prison in Banjul for conspiring to assassinate the President in 1995. International and domestic human rights organizations were not permitted access to him. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Assassinate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 97.89% of the time. "Assassinate" is used about 95 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	97.89%	93	34,067
Lexical Verb (base form)	2.11%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	95	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "assassinate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vras (bag, bruise, bump off, damage, despatch, dispatch, do away with, drop, finish, finish off, get, hurt, injure, kill, Lynch, make away with oneself, murder, poniard, put the sword, puzzle, shoot, slay, stab, stone to death, waste, zap). (various references)

Arabic		‏قتل (assassination, bag, butcher, croak, death, despatch, dispatch, do in, end, finish, fire, homicide, immolate, kill, killing, knock off, lay out, manslaughter, murder, poleaxe, procure, put down, put to death, shoot, slay, take for a ride), ‏إغتال, ‏شوه (blemish, color, colour, deface, defile, deform, denigrate, distort, falsify, garble, harm, maim, mangle, mar, misrepresent, mutilate, pervert, queer, skew, slant, slur, spoil, tinker, torment, torture, twist, warp, wrench). (various references)

Bulgarian		убивам (account for, dispose of, do in, end, finish, fix, kill, lay out, liquidate, murder, pip, polish off, pop off, pot, push off, put away, put to death, quench, remove, rub out, shoot up, slay, snuff out, starve, strike down, wipe out, zap). (various references)

Chinese		暗殺 , 刺杀 (Assassinated, Assassinating, Assassination), 刺 (murder, pierce, prick, stab, sting, thorn, thrust). (various references)

Czech		atentát (assassination, attempt), zavraždit (hit, kill, murder, slay). (various references)

Finnish		murhata (murder). (various references)

French		assassiner. (various references)

German		meucheln (to assassinate), ermorden (kill, liquidate, murder, slain, slay, to assassinate, to murder). (various references)

Greek		δολοφονώ. (various references)

Hungarian		orvul meggyilkol. (various references)

Indonesian		menewaskan (kill, murder, slay), membunuh (butcher, delete, erase, kill, murder, plug, put out, slay), bunuh (murder, slay). (various references)

Italian		assassinare (murder). (various references)

Manx		marroo (aground; deceased estate, bag game; dead, bag; dead, butcher, deceased, defunct, departed, dispatch, dud, dull, dull of pain, exterminate, extinct; extermination, flat, flat mood, flat spot, glassy, glassy as look, inanimate, kill, kill off, killed, killing, lifeless, liquidate, liquidation, mortified, muggy, murder, slaughter, slaughtered, slaughtering, slay, slaying, sleeping, stagnant). (various references)

Pig Latin		assassinateay

Portuguese		assassinar (kill, murder, slay). (various references)

Romanian		asasina (bump off, kill, murder, slay), ucide (butcher, croak, destroy, execute, kill, murder, poison, slaughter, slay, smother, spoil, strangle, suffocate), omorî (annihilate, bring down, bump, butcher, croak, destroy, dispatch, do for, do in, execute, exhaust, finish, kill, knock off, make an end of, make away with, murder, put smb. on the spot, put to death, send to glory, shift, slaughter, slay, spoil, torment, torture). (various references)

Russian		убивать (assassinating, do in, do to death, kill, liquidate, murder, put death, slain, slay, smite). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ubiti (bag, bump off, cut down, do away, do away with, kill, make away, murder, put away, slay, wipe out, zap). (various references)

Spanish		asesinar (kill, murder). (various references)

Swedish		mörda (Burke, dispatch, kill, murder). (various references)

Thai		ทำลาย (annihilate, blight, break, eat, extinguish, kick in, murder), ลอบสังหาร. (various references)

Turkish		suikâst düzenlemek, öldürmek (bump off, carry off, croak, cut down, destroy, dispatch, do away with, do in, do one's job for one, drop, erase, exterminate, get, get rid of, give smb. his quietus, ice, kill, kill off, knock off, knock out, liquidate, make away with, murder, off, put away, put down, put to death, rub out, send to glory, shoot, shoot dead, slay, take off, take smb.'s life, waste, wipe out, zap). (various references)

Welsh		bradlofruddio. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "assassinate": assassinated, assassinates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Assassinate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asassinate, assasinate, assassinare. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "assassinate" (pronounced usa"sunā't)
6	-a" s u n ā' t	fascinate.
5	-s u n ā' t	impersonate.
4	-u n ā' t	agglutinate, alienate, carbonate, chlorinate, concatenate, contaminate, culminate, decaffeinate, decontaminate, denominate, determinate, detonate, discriminate, disseminate, dominate, eliminate, emanate, exterminate, fulminate, germinate, halogenate, hydrogenate, hyphenate, illuminate, incriminate, indoctrinate, inseminate, insubordinate, isocyanate, italianate, marinate, nominate, originate, oxygenate, pollinate, predominate, procrastinate, rejuvenate, renominate, resonate, ruminate, subordinate, terminate, titanate, urinate.
3	-n ā' t	designate, donate, hibernate, impregnate, reincarnate, stagnate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-i-n-s-s-s-s-t"
	-3 letters: anatases, assassin, astasias, entasias, sassiest, sestinas.
	-4 letters: anatase, assents, assists, astasia, entasia, entasis, nasties, sanseis, sassies, sestina, siestas, taenias, tansies, tassies, tisanes.
	-5 letters: anises, ansate, asanas, assais, assent, assess, assets, assist, insets, saints, sanest, sanies, sansei, sasins, sasses, satins, siesta, stains, stanes, stases, stasis, steins, taenia, tasses, tassie, tenias, tineas, tisane.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-e-i-n-s-s-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: assassinated, assassinates.
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