assassinate
verb (used with object)
to kill suddenly or secretively, especially a prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously.
has assassinated
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present perfectof assassinate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Hezbollah appears outmaneuvered by a technologically superior foe that has assassinated much of its top leadership and destroyed a significant portion of its weapons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024
Fans continue to voice support for Cattrall's Samantha Jones on Twitter, where several claim the series has assassinated her character.
From Fox News ● Dec. 15, 2021
One detective revealed the shocking and half-false information to the occupants of Surratt’s boardinghouse: “John Wilkes Booth has shot the president, and John Surratt has assassinated the secretary of state.”
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
"I do—I mean that the illiterate editor of this disgraceful sheet has assassinated the offspring of my imagination!"
From The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by John Esten Cooke
He has assassinated the natural day; how then can he eat with an appetite?
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
