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

Congress named the performing arts center as a living memorial to Kennedy in 1964, the year after he was assassinated. — ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026

The congregation was the organizing place for the sanitation workers’ strike that brought King to town in March 1968, weeks before he was assassinated there. — Jason Wollschleger, The Conversation, 19 Aug. 2026

Kennedy, who was born after her father was assassinated, credits not only him but her whole family with inspiring her. — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026

Just over a decade later, in November 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated during a Texas motorcade, with his wife by his side. — Freya Drohan, InStyle, 16 Aug. 2026

Dozens of senior Iranian officials were assassinated in airstrikes when the conflict began at the end of February, but Araghchi does not appear to have been a target, perhaps because he is seen as a possible interlocutor in any settlement. — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026

Someone had apparently vandalized Altman's Wikipedia page, claiming he was assassinated in Seattle. — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026

But when The Satanic Verses was published in 1988, the novel was declared by some as blasphemous, and then-Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa for Rushdie to be assassinated, leading the author to go into hiding until 1998. — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 12 Aug. 2026

And then the president of Haiti was assassinated, and things got really bad in Haiti with the gang violence that ensued. — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2026