| 单词 | assassination |
| 释义 | assassination (once / 811 pages) n An assassination is the murder of a public figure. Assassinations are usually politically motivated. If someone kills your dog, that’s not an assassination, that’s just murder (unless your dog was running for mayor). A murder is the unjust, illegal killing of someone. An assassination is a type of murder in which the victim is someone well known, usually in the world of politics. The killings of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinations: their purpose was to destabilize the government and hurt the civil rights movement, respectively. As assassination is murder plus politics. WORD FAMILYassassination: assassinations+/assassin: assassinate, assassins/assassinate: assassinated, assassinates, assassinating, assassination, assassinator/assassinator: assassinators USAGE EXAMPLESDündar survived an assassination attempt, was convicted of treason, and escaped to Germany, where he now lives in exile. The New Yorker(Dec 30, 2016) Trump even accused Cruz’s beloved father, a Cuban immigrant, of being involved in the Kennedy assassination. Salon(Dec 28, 2016) Years of violence, civil war and assassinations ensued before the country stabilized under an “institutional” revolutionary party, which grew progressively more hierarchical and autocratic. Washington Post(Dec 26, 2016) 1n murder of a public figure by surprise attack Hyper execution, murder, slaying unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being 2n an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation Syn|Hyper blackwash, character assassination calumniation, calumny, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions |
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