- past participle of assassinate.
- past tense form of assassinate.
assassinated
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The Killer-Critic Assassinated by His Widower, Even, 1997: RB Kitaj’s greatest act of revenge was this painting, displayed at the Royal Academy’s 1997 Summer Exhibition.
From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2013
"Actually Assassinated" Last week the editor of the New York Times received from Nicaragua a cablegram distinctly of the letter-to-the-Times type.
From Time Magazine Archive
Assassinated shortly after reelection, McKinley was succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt, whom Hanna called a "crazy man."
From Time Magazine Archive
Assassinated with King Alexander of Yugoslavia at Marseille was the great French protagonist of a pact to end war in Eastern Europe by mutually guaranteeing all frontiers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Punch, London: poem on "Abraham Lincoln Foully Assassinated," in, 140.
From The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President by Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline)
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