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assassinateassassinate /əˈsæsəˌneɪt/ ●○○ verb [transitive] VERB TABLEassassinate |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
THESAURUSmake somebody/something die► kill to make a person or living thing die: She was accused of killing her husband. You’ll kill your plants if you water them too much. ► murder to deliberately kill someone: He is accused of murdering four people. ► take somebody’s life to kill someone. Used to emphasize that life is important: All religions teach that it is wrong to take another person’s life. ► assassinate to deliberately kill an important person, especially a politician: President Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963. ► commit murder to murder someone. Used when you are not saying exactly who was murdered: What would make her want to commit murder? ► commit suicide to deliberately cause your own death: After killing the other people, he committed suicide. ► commit manslaughter to kill someone without intending to: He was accused of committing manslaughter after driving too fast and hitting someone in a parking lot. ► execute somebody/put somebody to death to kill someone as a punishment for a crime: Members of the former government were executed for their crimes. ► slaughter/massacre to kill a large number of people in a violent way: Troops came into the village and slaughtered hundreds of people. ► exterminate formal to kill all of a particular group of animals or people: They use poison to exterminate the insects. ► slay to kill someone violently. Used especially in newspapers: The family was slain in their homes. to kill an important person: Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968.► see thesaurus at kill1 |