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 Riehle made it to Broadway in 1986 with a role in the Emily Mann drama Execution of Justice, which centered on the trial of Dan White, who assassinated San Francisco mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978. — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2026 Earlier that year, King had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026 This is where Catto was assassinated 155 years ago during a tumultuous Election Day in 1871. — Timothy Welbeck, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2026 Yeah, people just want to see if I really did get assassinated by Madonna’s Cartel. — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2026 The 21-year-old Michigan State senior is also head of the local chapter of Turning Point, the group for young conservatives whose founder, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated last year. — Jacqueline Ganun, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2026 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

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During this same time his father had vanished behind the Bamboo Curtain and was almost certainly persecuted, possibly even murdered, by the same Communists that Hoover claimed to be fighting.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
New or expecting mothers are more likely to be murdered than to die from obstetric causes.

— Michele Decker, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2026

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Smartly, Fischer and Wilson build out this community with its own strange customs, big and small, each executed without explanation, question or complaint.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
The researchers worked with RISC-V assembly code, which represents instructions executed by a processor.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026

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