Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of assassinating; the act, especially of a hired emissary, of killing or murdering by surprise or secret assault; murder by treacherous violence.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation
- n. murder of a public figure by surprise attack
Examples
““I find your use of the word assassination rather amusing,” snarled Rudin.”
“As much as he hated the notion of prolonging his exposure to those sons of bitches, once someone breathed the word assassination it all became a new ball game.”
“The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful Islamist political group, condemned what it called the assassination of Mr. bin Laden in a statement distributed to reporters on Monday.”
The Wall Street Journal: World Cheers Bin Laden Killing, Prepares for Strikes
“Gbagbo allies say the U.N. and French forces were also involved in Wednesday's fighting as part of what they call an assassination attempt against Mr. Gbagbo, a charge that French officials deny.”
Voice of America: Ouattara Forces Attack Gbagbo Home in Ivory Coast
“This time it was what he called the assassination of Isaac.”
“This assassination is the earliest reply which chivalry has had to make to forbearance unmeasured and friendliness almost fraternal.”
The Martyred President: A Sermon Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
“Lt. Gen. David Rodriguez said earlier this week he believes that after a winter lull, the Taliban will bring on a new strategy in the spring that probably will include what he called assassination hit teams.”
“He said the strategy is likely to include what he called assassination hit teams.”
“Yet Hazlitt also claims that the reviewers calculatingly engage in "assassination" to make money (16: 239).”
“So the whole tiresome rhetorical apparatus of character assassination is dutifully wheeled in.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘assassination’.
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US - war on terror
mirandize, heavily-guarded h..., capture, manhunt, shootout, bloodied, suspect, gunshot wound, citywide lockdown, house-by-house se..., intelligence oppo..., naturalized Ameri... and 463 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Conspiracies
...And all that heavy metal.
kurt cobain, courtney love, tom grant, exodus rehab clinic, california, seattle, record industry e..., military industri..., mic, yugoslavia, heroin, credit cards and 202 more...
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Words that sound dirty but aren't.
When you want to be pedantic AND childish.
titular, masticate, condiment, titmouse, penal, formication, social intercourse, assassination, cacophony, lucubrate, rectify, banal and 131 more...
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Favorite Words Ending In 'tion
obfuscation, delineation, ratiocination, proprioception, gesticulation, oscillation, undulation, fasciculation, confabulation, interdiction, juxtaposition, commiseration and 41 more...
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ChortleGiggleSnort
Significant Words- Guiding you on your path to Snazzibility
flimsy, feeble, ranting, ramble, narky, snazzy, yoghurt, bulbous, pustule, globulous, geranium, megalomaniac and 521 more...
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Criswell Predicts
Words describing a future that may or may not be entirely grounded in reality. Not to be used for predictive purposes. I do not have the gift of premonition. In fact, all these ideas come from popu...
flying car, space tourism, big brother, soylent green, brave new world, first contact, domestic android, skynet, new world order, collectivism, world peace, laser pistol and 93 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Wordlist-1
Important words
atrabilious, allege, anxiety, architecture, ambitious, anxiously, albeit, accommodate, anonymity, amateur, apprehension, aire and 130 more...
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Dxpert's Words
typically, analysis, theorem, definitely, label, absolutely, bored, awkward, unfortunately, drastically, appointment, stopped and 36 more...
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Words Noir
assassination, stiletto, clubbed, shadowed, vengeance, croaked, guilt, conscience, inheritance, detective, dame, murder and 26 more...
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A negation of all human qualities
These are all human things. Things us humans do. Not animals - those species we feel superior to.
jealousy, suicide, assassination, cannibalism, necrophilia, greed, torture
Tweets
Looking for tweets for assassination.
chained_bear "Any state that turns a blind eye toward the assassination of reporters can't call itself a democracy."
—Kati Marton, "Getting Away with Murder," Newsweek, July 20, 2009 Jul 21, 2009
bilby "Our drone wars also represent a new chapter in the history of assassination. Once upon a time, to be an assassin for a government was a furtive, shameful thing. In those days, of course, an assassin, if successful, took down a single person, not the targeted individual and anyone in the vicinity (or simply, if targeting intelligence proves wrong, anyone in the vicinity). No more poison-dart-tipped umbrellas, as in past KGB operations, or toxic cigars as in CIA ones -- not now that assassination has taken to the skies as an every day, all-year-round activity.
Today, we increasingly display our assassination wares with pride. To us, at least, it seems perfectly normal for assassination aerial operations to be a part of an open discussion in Washington and in the media. Consider this a new definition of "progress" in our world."
- Tom Engelhardt, Terminator Planet, tomdispatch.com, 7 April 2009. Apr 8, 2009