ASSASSINATED Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

assassinated

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past tense of assassinate

as in murdered

to put to death deliberately President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth

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Recent Examples of assassinated On July 7, 2021, Moïse was assassinated inside his second-floor bedroom. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026 He was assassinated in Paris in February 1984, shot on a street outside his residence close to the Eiffel Tower. — ABC News, 30 Sep. 2026 Nearly sixty years later, King Philip—the Wampanoag leader who tried to fight the English Pilgrims—was assassinated on August 12, 1676. — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026 Three of the sisters were assassinated in 1960, turning them into national heroines alongside symbols of both popular and feminist resistance. — Alex Ritman, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026 Imagine if someone came into your country and assassinated your president. — CBS News, 27 Sep. 2026 The Utah university where Charlie Kirk was assassinated last September released a report on Thursday examining the security pitfalls in advance of Kirk’s murder. — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2026 In the late 1990s, there were calls for the citizenship of Yigal Amir, who assassinated former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, to be removed. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026 Her late mother-in-law, Jackie, was also 34 when her husband was assassinated during a motorcade in Dallas in November 1963—months after Stas gifted her the watch. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 17 Sep. 2026

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In the series, a bachelorette weekend turns deadly when the bride (Jenner) winds up murdered in the pool, and her closest girlfriends all become suspects.

— Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026
Her sister's husband, her brother-in-law, Yagev Buchshtab however, had been murdered by the terrorists.

— Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026

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Shortly after, in his final snaps under center as a Bronco, Zabransky made two completions and then perfectly executed the Statue of Liberty handoff to cement his place in Boise State’s history.

— Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 3 Oct. 2026
Earlier this week, IRNA reported that Iran had executed two other men over violence during the January protests.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026

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