"assassinate" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /əˈsæsɪneɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /əˈsæs(ə)nˌeɪt/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-assassinate.ogg [General-American] Forms: assassinates [plural]
Etymology: From assassin + -ate, after Middle French assassiner. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|assassin|ate}} assassin + -ate, {{uder|en|frm|assassiner}} Middle French assassiner Head templates: {{en-noun}} assassinate (plural assassinates)
  1. (obsolete) Assassination, murder. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Death
    Sense id: en-assassinate-en-noun-bfDSdTm5 Disambiguation of Death: 49 42 3 7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ate, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 65 6 6 22 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 76 5 6 13 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ate: 52 21 10 17 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 58 10 13 19
  2. (obsolete) An assassin. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Crime, Death, Murder
    Sense id: en-assassinate-en-noun-OBxFRrWu Disambiguation of Crime: 15 50 12 22 Disambiguation of Death: 49 42 3 7 Disambiguation of Murder: 32 46 10 12
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: murder, regicide

Verb [English]

IPA: /əˈsæsɪneɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /əˈsæs(ə)nˌeɪt/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-assassinate.ogg [General-American] Forms: assassinates [present, singular, third-person], assassinating [participle, present], assassinated [participle, past], assassinated [past]
Etymology: From assassin + -ate, after Middle French assassiner. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|assassin|ate}} assassin + -ate, {{uder|en|frm|assassiner}} Middle French assassiner Head templates: {{en-verb}} assassinate (third-person singular simple present assassinates, present participle assassinating, simple past and past participle assassinated)
  1. To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons. Translations (to murder by sudden or obscure attack): vermoor (Afrikaans), اِغْتَالَ (iḡtāla) (Arabic), սպանել (spanel) (Armenian), забіва́ць (zabivácʹ) [imperfective] (Belarusian), забі́ць (zabícʹ) [perfective] (Belarusian), убивам (ubivam) (Bulgarian), умъртвявам (umǎrtvjavam) (Bulgarian), assassinar (Catalan), 刺殺 (Chinese Mandarin), 刺杀 (cìshā) (Chinese Mandarin), 暗殺 (Chinese Mandarin), 暗杀 (ànshā) (Chinese Mandarin), zavraždit (Czech), myrde (Danish), snigmyrde (Danish), vermoorden (Dutch), murdi (Esperanto), mõrvama (Estonian), murhata (Finnish), assassiner (French), ermorden (German), meucheln (German), Meuchelmord begehen (German), εκτελώ (ekteló) (Greek), התנקש (hitnakésh) (Hebrew), asasinar (Ido), feallmharaigh (Irish), assassinare (Italian), 暗殺する (ansatsu-suru) (alt: あんさつする) (Japanese), 암살(暗殺)하다 (amsalhada) (Korean), necō (Latin), per īnsidiās interficiō [Classical] (Latin), assassīnō [Medieval] (Latin), assassinar (Occitan), assassinar (Portuguese), asasina (Romanian), убива́ть (ubivátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), уби́ть (ubítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), сма̀кнути [Cyrillic, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), smàknuti [Roman, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), bolaya (Sotho), asesinar (Spanish), lönnmörda (Swedish), linguhin (Tagalog), ลอบสังหาร (lɔ̂ɔp-sǎng-hǎan) (Thai), ลอบฆ่า (Thai), öldürmek (Turkish), ám sát (alt: 暗殺) (Vietnamese), bradlofruddio (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-assassinate-en-verb-zqHOYoOn Disambiguation of 'to murder by sudden or obscure attack': 69 31
  2. (figuratively) To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-assassinate-en-verb-hoajyreA
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: assassin, assassination

Verb [Italian]

Head templates: {{head|it|verb form}} assassinate
  1. inflection of assassinare:
    second-person plural present indicative
    Tags: form-of, indicative, plural, present, second-person
    Sense id: en-assassinate-it-verb-jsj~me2s Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 83 12 4
  2. inflection of assassinare:
    second-person plural imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, plural, second-person
    Sense id: en-assassinate-it-verb-0FAt2kt-
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb [Italian]

Head templates: {{head|it|past participle form|g=f-p}} assassinate f pl
  1. feminine plural of assassinato Tags: feminine, form-of, participle, plural Form of: assassinato
    Sense id: en-assassinate-it-verb-m1WrXJ-o
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "to murder by sudden or obscure attack",
      "word": "刺殺"
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      "sense": "to murder by sudden or obscure attack",
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to murder by sudden or obscure attack",
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      "code": "io",
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      "sense": "to murder by sudden or obscure attack",
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      "alt": "あんさつする",
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      "sense": "to murder by sudden or obscure attack",
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      "sense": "to murder by sudden or obscure attack",
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      "sense": "to murder by sudden or obscure attack",
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      "alt": "暗殺",
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      "sense": "to murder by sudden or obscure attack",
      "word": "ám sát"
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      "code": "cy",
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