Synonyms of assassinated

assassinated

verb

past tense of assassinate

as in murdered

to put to death deliberately

President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth

Synonyms & Similar Words

• murdered
• executed
• killed
• dispatched
• slaughtered
• got
• destroyed
• neutralized
• offed
• liquidated
• snuffed
• whacked
• slew
• terminated
• put away
• croaked
• knocked off
• iced
• took out
• did in
• bumped off
• did away with
• rubbed out
• claimed
• massacred
• eliminated
• butchered
• shot
• cut down
• eradicated
• shot down
• felled
• carried off
• exterminated
• blotted out
• smote
• annihilated
• wiped out
• blew away
• zapped
• mowed (down)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• restored
• raised
• revived
• animated
• resurrected
• resuscitated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of assassinated

The 48-year-old daughter of former president Rodrigo Duterte is accused of corruption, bribery, misappropriating millions in government funds and threatening to have the current president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, assassinated. — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 9 July 2026

Politician Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of assassinated former Burma Prime Minister Aung San, was placed under house arrest by Burma’s ruling junta. — USA Today, 7 July 2026

Kennedy was assassinated in November, but there was a whole bunch of things happening. — Lynne Sullivan, The Providence Journal, 2 July 2026

Louis Farrakhan, who is now 93, stepped into the organization’s leadership vacuum shortly after Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965. — Julie Carr Smyth, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026

Louis Farrakhan stepped into the organization’s leadership vacuum shortly after Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965. — Julie Carr Smyth, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026

Louis Farrakhan stepped into the organization's leadership vacuum shortly after Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965. — ABC News, 28 June 2026

Widely regarded as a symbol of Congolese independence, Lumumba led the country out of Belgian colonial rule in 1960 before becoming its first prime minister and being assassinated just months later. — Elmira Aliieva, NBC news, 27 June 2026

Lumumba was assassinated less than seven months later in January 1961 at the age of just 35. — Emile Nuh, CNN Money, 24 June 2026