He was ignorant of the plot to assassinate him.
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Assassinate
//əˈsæsɪneɪt//
Synonyms for "assassinate" (166 found)
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Verb(78 words)
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6 entriesTranslations
48 translations across 36 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- vermoor verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Arabic
1 entries- اِغْتَالَ verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Armenian
1 entries- սպանել verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Belarusian
2 entries- забі́ць verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
- забіва́ць verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Bulgarian
2 entries- убивам verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
- умъртвявам verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Catalan
1 entries- assassinar verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 刺殺 /刺杀 verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
- 暗殺 /暗杀 verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Czech
1 entries- zavraždit verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Danish
2 entries- myrde verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
- snigmyrde verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Dutch
1 entries- vermoorden verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Esperanto
1 entries- murdi verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Estonian
1 entries- mõrvama verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Finnish
1 entries- murhata verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
French
1 entries- assassiner verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
German
4 entries- Meuchelmord begehen verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
- ermorden verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
- liquidieren verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
- meucheln verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Greek
1 entries- εκτελώ verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Hebrew
1 entries- התנקש verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Ido
1 entries- asasinar verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Irish
1 entries- feallmharaigh verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Italian
1 entries- assassinare verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Japanese
1 entries- 暗殺する verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Korean
1 entries- 암살(暗殺)하다 verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Latin
3 entries- assassīnō verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
- necō verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
- per īnsidiās interficiō verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Occitan
1 entries- assassinar verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Portuguese
1 entries- assassinar verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Romanian
1 entries- asasina verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Russian
2 entries- уби́ть verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
- убива́ть verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- smàknuti verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
- сма̀кнути verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Sotho
1 entries- bolaya verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Spanish
1 entries- asesinar verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Swedish
1 entries- lönnmörda verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Tagalog
1 entries- linguhin verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Thai
2 entries- ลอบฆ่า verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
- ลอบสังหาร verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Turkish
1 entries- öldürmek verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ám sát verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Welsh
1 entries- bradlofruddio verb (to murder by sudden or obscure attack)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
They attempted to assassinate the president.
Source: tatoeba (307108)
The plot to assassinate the president was discovered just in time.
Source: tatoeba (569039)
The only way to get rid of a modern dictator is to assassinate him.
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