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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for offed
  1. assassinated
  2. murdered
  3. executed
  4. killed
Verb
  • Its tree- and mausoleum-lined avenues are home to over 25,000 burial sites, including Felipe Carrillo Puerto (a progressive champion of human rights who was assassinated in 1924).
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2026
  • The United States and Israel assassinated Iran’s leadership, including the supreme leader and much of his family, yet the regime remains intact.
    — S. C. M. Paine, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of assassinated
Verb
  • Detectives from the start suspected Panetti had been murdered.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • It was consecrated by James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, young Black and Jewish men murdered together in 1964 for their work to register Black voters.
    — Seth Limmer, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of murdered
Verb
  • Smartly, Fischer and Wilson build out this community with its own strange customs, big and small, each executed without explanation, question or complaint.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The researchers worked with RISC-V assembly code, which represents instructions executed by a processor.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of executed
Verb
  • Brendt Volarvich shot and killed Stevens in November 2005 after the officer pulled him over in rural Yolo County.
    — Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • In addition to those killed, Zelenskyy said 30 more people could still be buried in the rubble.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of killed
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