assassinate
verb🔊/əˈsæsɪneɪt/
🔊/əˈsæsɪneɪt/
[often passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they assassinate | 🔊/əˈsæsɪneɪt/ 🔊/əˈsæsɪneɪt/ |
| he / she / it assassinates | 🔊/əˈsæsɪneɪts/ 🔊/əˈsæsɪneɪts/ |
| past simple assassinated | 🔊/əˈsæsɪneɪtɪd/ 🔊/əˈsæsɪneɪtɪd/ |
| past participle assassinated | 🔊/əˈsæsɪneɪtɪd/ 🔊/əˈsæsɪneɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form assassinating | 🔊/əˈsæsɪneɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/əˈsæsɪneɪtɪŋ/ |
- assassinate somebody
to murder an important or famous person, especially for political reasons （尤为政治目的）暗杀，行刺 a plot to assassinate the president 刺杀总统的阴谋 The prime minister was assassinated by extremists. 首相遭极端分子暗杀。 🔊🔊
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + assassinate- attempt to
- try to
- plan to
- …
- an attempt to assassinate somebody
- a plot to assassinate somebody
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from medieval Latin assassinat- ‘killed’, from the verb assassinare, from assassinus, from Arabic ḥašīšī ‘hashish-eater’.