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assassinated
[uh-sas-uh-neyt] 
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assassinate
[uh-sas-uh-neyt]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | murder prominent or important person |
| Synonyms: | bump off, do in, eliminate, execute, gun down, hit, kill, knock off, liquidate, slaughter, slay |
| Main Entry: | do in |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy; exhaust |
| Synonyms: | assassinate, bankrupt, bump off, butcher, cool*, dilapidate, dispatch, do away with, eliminate, execute, fatigue, finish, frazzle, kill, knock out, liquidate, murder, put away, ruin, shatter, slaughter, slay, tire, wear out, weary, wreck |
| Antonyms: | bear, create, invent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | execute |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | kill |
| Synonyms: | assassinate, behead, bump off, do in, electrocute, eliminate, finish, gas, guillotine, hang, knock off, liquidate, murder, purge, put away, put to death, shoot |
| Antonyms: | bear, create |
| Main Entry: | finish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defeat; kill |
| Synonyms: | annihilate, assassinate, best*, bring down, carry off, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do in, down, execute, exterminate, get rid of*, liquidate, overcome, overpower, put an end to, put away, rout, rub out, ruin, slaughter, slay, take off, take out*, vaporize, worst* |
| Antonyms: | bear, create |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | kill |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deprive of existence; destroy |
| Synonyms: | X-out, annihilate, asphyxiate, assassinate, crucify, dispatch, do away with, do in, drown, dump, electrocute, eradicate, erase*, execute, exterminate, extirpate, finish, garrote, get*, guillotine, hang, hit*, immolate, liquidate, lynch, massacre, murder, neutralize, obliterate, off*, poison, polish off, put away, put to death, rub out, sacrifice, slaughter, slay, smother, snuff, strangle, suffocate, waste*, wipe out, zap |
| Antonyms: | bear, create, give birth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | knock off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | kill |
| Synonyms: | assassinate, blow away, bump off, chill, dispatch, dispose of, do away with, do away with, do in, do in, dust, dust*, eliminate, execute, finish, grease, hit, ice, kill, liquidate, murder, off, rub out, rub out, shoot, slay, snuff out, stab, stretch out, waste, wax, whack, zap |
| Antonyms: | bear, create |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | murder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | kill |
| Synonyms: | abolish, asphyxiate, assassinate, behead, blot out, bump off, butcher, chill*, cool*, decapitate, defeat, destroy, dispatch, do in, drub, dust off, electrocute, eliminate, eradicate, execute, exterminate, extinguish, finish, garotte, guillotine, hang, hit*, knife, knock off, liquidate, lynch, mangle, mar, massacre, misuse, off*, put away, rub out, ruin, shoot, slaughter, slay, smother, snuff, spoil, strangle, take a life, take for a ride, take out*, thrash*, waste* |
| Notes: | the general term for the killing of a person by another is homicide; murder is either the intentional killing or malicious killing of another; manslaughter is the unintentional, accidental killing of another through carelessness |
| Antonyms: | guard, preserve, protect, save |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | put away |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | kill |
| Synonyms: | assassinate, bury, cool*, cut off, destroy, dispatch, do away with, do in, dust off, execute, finish, inter, knock off, liquidate, murder, plant, put down*, put out of its misery, put to sleep, slay, tomb |
| Antonyms: | give birth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | remove |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do away with; kill |
| Synonyms: | assassinate, blot out, clear away, dispose of, do in, drag, drag down, efface, eliminate, eradicate, erase, exclude, execute, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, get rid of, liquidate, murder, obliterate, purge, scratch, sterilize, take down, take out, waste*, wipe out |
| Antonyms: | give birth, plant, sow |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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