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assassinate

verb as in murder prominent or important person

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The US leader said he had heard "great things about her" and hailed the fact that she was an acolyte of assassinated former premier Shinzo Abe, with whom he had close ties.

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Islamic State has assassinated several of them this year.

Later, the U.S. government didn’t stop a military coup in Brazil, helped dissidents assassinate the leader of the Dominican Republic and covertly supported the insurgent contras in Nicaragua, leading to the Iran-Contra scandal.

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In dozens of air strikes, Israel assassinated terrorist commanders who had emerged post-cease-fire and struck a tunnel that was used to kill 10 soldiers but was spared while Hamas held hostages there.

“These criminal networks have issued explicit instructions to U.S.-based sympathetics, including street gangs in Chicago, to monitor, harass, and assassinate federal agents,” DHS asserted.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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