OFFED Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

offed

verb

past tense of off, slang

as in assassinated

to put to death deliberately the hit man was rumored to have offed at least three people in the last year alone

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The 48-year-old daughter of former president Rodrigo Duterte is accused of corruption, bribery, misappropriating millions in government funds and threatening to have the current president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, assassinated.

— Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 9 July 2026
Politician Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of assassinated former Burma Prime Minister Aung San, was placed under house arrest by Burma’s ruling junta.

— USA Today, USA Today, 7 July 2026

Definition of assassinated

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In 2019, a German nurse who murdered 87 patients by deliberately bringing about cardiac arrests was given a life sentence.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
People were becoming aware of the tens of millions of victims who had been murdered by communist regimes over the previous decades.

— David Brooks, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

Definition of murdered

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Of the 63 inmates executed in the United States in 2025 and so far this year, Florida has carried out 28 of them.

— Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 11 July 2026
Channel your inner Sporty Spice with preppy tees featuring jersey numbers and rugby stripes, executed with fashionable precision by Versace, Nili Lotan, Staud, and TWP.

— Rosie Jarman, Vogue, 10 July 2026

Definition of executed

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Israel retaliated with a massive military offensive that has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians, Gaza’s Health Ministry says, around half of them women and children.

— Bilal Shbeir, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
Hayati did not provide further details on the people killed or injured.

— Jamie Gray, NBC news, 9 July 2026

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