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present participle of assassinate
Synonyms & Antonyms of assassinating
to put to death deliberately
- President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
Synonyms for 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]
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“Assassinating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassinating. Accessed 25 Jan. 2022.
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