英语词汇“assassinate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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assassinate

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	assassinate
	he, she, it	assassinates
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	assassinated
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have assassinated
	he, she, it	has assassinated
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had assassinated
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will assassinate
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have assassinated

Continuous Form
Present	I	am assassinating
	he, she, it	is assassinating
	you, we, they	are assassinating
Past	I, he, she, it	was assassinating
	you, we, they	were assassinating
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been assassinating
	he, she, it	has been assassinating
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been assassinating
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be assassinating
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been assassinating

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

an attempt to assassinate the Pope
President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
The CIA may have tried to assassinate Castro.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Many people today, worldwide, remember exactly what they were doing when John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
One is that a team of Army sharpshooters was sent to Memphis to assassinate King.
Salinas said he had had excellent relations with two politicians who were assassinated late in his term.
The latter prevailed, but on 18 March 978 was assassinated by his rival's followers at Corfe in Dorset.
The plotters' failure came too late for Jumblatt: he was assassinated in March 1977, victim of yet another plot.
Two weeks later they assassinated Masaryk.

THESAURUS► kill

to make someone die: · The driver and his passenger were killed in the crash.· He was killed by rival gang members.

► murder

to deliberately kill someone – used when talking about this as a crime: · He was convicted of murdering his wife.

► commit manslaughter

to kill someone without intending to – used when talking about this as a crime: · The court ruled that the guard had committed manslaughter.

► assassinate

to deliberately kill an important person, especially a politician: · He was part of a plot to assassinate Hitler.

► slay

to kill someone or something in a violent way – used in newspaper reports and also in old stories: · Two teenagers were slain in the shootings.· St. George slew the dragon.· The king was slain at the battle of Hastings.

► execute

formal (also put somebody to death) to kill someone as a punishment for a crime: · McVeigh, who killed 168 people in a bombing attack, was executed by lethal injection.

► eliminate

to kill someone in order to prevent them from causing trouble: · a ruthless dictator who eliminated all his rivals

► take somebody out

informal to kill someone in order to get rid of them, especially an enemy or someone who is causing trouble for you: · US forces used air strikes to take out the enemy positions.· One of the other drug dealers may have decided to take him out.

► bump somebody off

humorous informal to kill someone: · He was so irritating I felt like bumping him off myself.

► do away with somebody

informal to kill someone: · The settlers in Jamestown had been done away with, but no one knew how.

Longman Language Activatorto kill someone► kill

to make someone die, especially deliberately or violently: · He claims that he didn't mean to kill his wife.· The police believe the man may kill again.· What the hell were you doing! You could have killed me!· Official sources say that 20 people were killed in last night's air raids.· My sixteen-year-old son Louis was killed by a drunk driver two years ago.

► murder

to deliberately kill someone, especially after planning to do it: · Wilson is accused of murdering his daughter and her boyfriend.· One of the country's top judges has been murdered by the Mafia.

► assassinate

to murder an important or famous person, especially for political reasons: · President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.· an attempt to assassinate the Pope

► beat/kick/stab etc somebody to death

to kill someone by beating them, kicking them, or attacking them with a knife: · The court heard how the man was beaten to death by racist thugs.· A social worker was found stabbed to death in her office last night.· Smith had apparently been kicked to death.

► poison

to kill someone by putting a very harmful substance in their food or drink: · He believed that somebody was trying to poison him.· She had already poisoned three members of her own family with arsenic.

► drown

to kill someone by holding their face under water for a long time: · He accused his brother of trying to drown him.

► strangle

to kill someone by pressing on their throat with both hands or with something such as a piece of string so that they cannot breathe: · Police said that the victim had been strangled.· He slid his hands around her neck and tried to strangle her.

► bump off

informal to kill someone - often used humorously: bump off somebody/bump somebody off: · He kept marrying rich women and then bumping them off.have somebody bumped off (=arrange for someone to be killed): · His uncle decided to have him bumped off.

► do away with

informal to kill someone, especially because they are a threat or their death would be convenient: · Perhaps his wife had taken the opportunity to do away with her rival.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► attempt

· An alleged attempt to assassinate President Gaviria was foiled.· In January 1858 an attempt was made to assassinate him as he drove with the Empress to the Opera in Paris.

► leader

· The danger of psychopaths who freely cross state borders to poison our medicines or to assassinate our leaders is well known.

► president

· On my departure they assassinated the President.

VERB► try

· They tried to assassinate her; and killed off two of her closest political friends, Airey Neave and Ian Gow.