assassinate
verb (used with object)
to kill suddenly or secretively, especially a prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously.
assassinates
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present tense formof assassinate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Taking the poker from Mr. Smith's nerveless grasp, with three vicious thrusts he assassinates the already moribund fire.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31 by Various
The accident was wondrous strange: Did you neither know your assassinates, nor your deliverer?
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott
Fear is the dungeon of the mind, and superstition is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll
I think of you always; Jack also; I have told him so much, he assassinates himself with desire to see you all.
From Fernley House by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry
"Hatred of lawlessness and the sort of meanness that assassinates and quarrels," was the quiet and surprising response.
From The Code of the Mountains by Charles Neville Buck
