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Assassinate meaning
To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons. | To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.
Example sentences (20)
Even if that were true, which you have no credibility on the issue to argue, we don't assassinate KKK members or allow terrorist governments to assassinate them in the West.
Congress leader Randeep Surjewala stated that the BJP was plotting to assassinate Kharge and his family, and that this was a serious matter.
Even after gaining its freedom, Belgium and the west successfully conspired to assassinate its leader Patrice Lumumba, replace him with a western-leaning dictator and control its cobalt mines.
Helping assassinate a Romulan Senator was just one of the morally dubious decisions Sisko made during the Dominion War.
In fact, the plans to assassinate Vegapunk were set into motion 3 months before the current timeline of events.
In his latest clarification, Soludo refuted claims that he had been contracted to “assassinate” the former governor of Anambra state.
Instead, it was the aforementioned BJ Vines who had hired him to bomb the drilling site, assassinate the dying Emerson, and later kill Emerson’s son.
In Turkey in 2022, IRGC operatives were foiled in their plan to murder Israeli tourists and to assassinate Yosef Levi-Sfari, the former Israeli consul in Istanbul.
It was where Jonathan Martin tried to lie low after escaping from Gateshead asylum where he had been sent for trying to assassinate the Bishop of Oxford.
Khan had accused the military of being behind an attempt to assassinate him.
Meanwhile former British PM said Russian President threatened to assassinate him.
Or did a splinter group of Palestinian radicals attempt to assassinate Mahmoud Abbas for refusing to declare war on Israel?
So nobody would have attempted to assassinate me or any member of our convoy.
Then he publicly accused an intelligence official of trying to assassinate him.
They were confiscated from a man in Massachusetts who threatened to assassinate President Barack Obama and from a man at Los Angeles International Airport after he fired at a civilian and three T.S.A. agents, killing one.
When they are commissioned by a mysterious and powerful man to assassinate the dictator of a small Latin American island, they soon discover that the nature of their assignment is much, much different.
A man accused of attempting to assassinate US President-elect Donald Trump in Florida will not be tried until September 2025, a federal judge ruled this week.
A Nazi resistance spy, who was involved in smuggling Jews out of Nazi Germany, he was accused of being part of the July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler.
An Indian national, Nikhil Gupta, was charged by federal prosecutors in November last year in connection with his involvement in a foiled plot to assassinate Pannun, who holds dual citizenship of the US and Canada.
A Pakistani national with purported ties to Iran was arrested last month on charges he plotted to assassinate former President Donald Trump and multiple other public officials, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court.