BUMPED OFF Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

bumped off

verb

past tense of bump off

as in assassinated

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

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Recent Examples of bumped off There’s a moment in the movie when the Ben Affleck character has bumped off her lover. — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026 Handre Pollard's grubber was scooped up by center Jesse Kriel, who bumped off two Scots to score. — ABC News, 11 July 2026 Andrew Peeke got bumped off the puck behind the net by Alex Tuch on Thompson’s second goal. — Stephen Conroy, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2026 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

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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

Definition of assassinated

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The day is often marked by protests against memorials to Christopher Columbus, for environmental justice, for the return of Indigenous lands and in honor of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026
Now, a new killer has murdered an altar boy and used his blood to write her name.

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of murdered

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The property, which takes up residence in an 18th-century palazzo, looks fresh-faced and gorgeous after a multi-year and multi-phase renovation executed through the peak of the pandemic.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2026
In real life millions of peasants were deported, executed, or starved during collectivization.

— Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of executed

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Sarajian put away a first-touch shot, off a cross played by Griezmann, from near the penalty spot 46 seconds into the game.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2026
As Arcadia police approached the house in May 2025, Xuan allegedly ordered one nanny to put away the sticks used to hit the children, according to the complaint.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

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