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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  1. assassinated
  2. murdered
  3. executed
  4. killed
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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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  • At the conference on Thursday, police did not name the victims, the shooter, or the bystander who killed him.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The subsequent airstrike killed him and, according to independent estimates, at least 125 other people.
    — Halla Tómasdóttir, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of killed
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“Offed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/offed. Accessed 16 Oct. 2026.

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