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assassinating

verb , present participle of assassinate

Synonyms and Antonyms of assassinating

to put to death deliberately

President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth

Synonyms of assassinating

bumping off, croaking [slang], dispatching, doing in, executing, getting, icing [slang], knocking off, liquidating, murdering, neutralizing, offing [slang], putting away, rubbing out, slaying, snuffing, taking out, terminating, whacking [slang]

Words Related to assassinating

blowing away, shooting, shooting down

blotting out, carrying off, claiming, cutting down, destroying, felling, killing, smiting, zapping

butchering, massacring, mowing (down), slaughtering

annihilating, eliminating, eradicating, exterminating, wiping out

Phrases Synonymous with assassinating

doing away with

Near Antonyms of assassinating

animating, raising, restoring, resurrecting, resuscitating, reviving

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