Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An assassin.
- noun In canon law, one who hires another to kill a third person by surprise or secret assault.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An assassin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
assassin .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed
Etymologies
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Examples
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Papers detailing the plans to attack the World Trade Center were found in the room of the assassinator, Nosair remember Nose Hair?
9/11 Time; LOOK OUT! The Daily Growler 2006
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And that fired her sense of injustice, and so she became an anarchist at that time, and she was, as we ` ve already said, associated with Berkman (ph), the would-be assassinator of Henry Clay Frick (ph), and she was this sort of fire-eating orator and rhetorician who went around the country giving these speeches about how, you know, you should resist tyranny.
Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt�s America 2003
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Gin you met this ganglin 'assassinator, wha'd be for maister?
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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This notice was an advertisement disguised as news, and inserted through the "System's" professional character assassinator, whose head-quarters are in Boston, a person who will occupy a prominent part in the chapters of my story wherein I treat of the crimes of
Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Thomas William Lawson 1891
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With Clytemnestra the assassinator of Agamemnon, king of men; with Ravaillac, who slew the best king that France ever knew; with "him who fired Ephesian's dome;" with the murderers of our
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TOP play a cold hearted assassinator look so badass already.
BIG BANG Fansite 2009
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We fished small arm spinnerbaits and Secret Weapon assassinator spinnerbaits that make noise.
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We fished small arm spinnerbaits and Secret Weapon assassinator spinnerbaits that make noise.
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We fished small arm spinnerbaits and Secret Weapon assassinator spinnerbaits that make noise.
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We fished small arm spinnerbaits and Secret Weapon assassinator spinnerbaits that make noise.
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