Synonyms of bump off

bump off

verb

as in to assassinate

to put to death deliberately

these drug dealers mean business, and they'll bump off anyone who gets in their way

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assassinate
• murder
• slay
• execute
• put away
• take out
• kill
• off
• get
• rub out
• dispatch
• do away with
• neutralize
• terminate
• ice
• liquidate
• knock off
• cut down
• destroy
• slaughter
• do in
• whack
• shoot
• carry off
• snuff
• blow away
• croak
• shoot down
• wipe out
• blot out
• fell
• claim
• eliminate
• mow (down)
• massacre
• butcher
• smite
• eradicate
• zap
• annihilate
• exterminate

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• raise
• restore
• revive
• animate
• resurrect
• resuscitate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bump off

Midway through, Clinton is bumped off at a monastery while dressed as a monk in Raquel Welch drag, and his guests must unravel the crime. — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025

Smith, a tall 25-year-old gay Black man determined to have a fun night on the town, picks up a bag of coke and immediately does a bump off his key. — Ana Osorno, Them., 21 Nov. 2025

Leganes’ Oscar Rodriguez learned this the hard way in May, getting bumped off the ball with the sort of front-footed tackle Agoume enjoys. — Carl Anka, New York Times, 30 June 2025

There is definitely a current of Aronofsky’s typical darkness in the number of bloody shootouts and all the corpses strewn around, with innocent bystanders as well as villains casually bumped off. — Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019