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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Among them is the son of Fred Hampton, a senior leader of the Black Panther Party who was assassinated by the FBI in 1969, at the age of 21.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 22 Aug. 2026
Congress named the performing arts center as a living memorial to Kennedy in 1964, the year after he was assassinated.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026

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Curry is largely there for comic relief, swanning in with a bevy of beauties, challenging Bosley (Bill Murray) to a sumo match, and, sadly, getting murdered by the pool, thus depriving us of Curry’s magnetic presence for the rest of the film.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 26 Aug. 2026
London, who was married to hip hop legend Nipsey Hussle, would come together with Snoop again to honor Nipsey after he was murdered in 2019.

— Justin Kroll, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2026

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Florida executed 19 people last year, accounting for 40% of all executions nationwide, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2026
Friday, Trumann police and the Poinsett County sheriff's office executed a search warrant relating to Rebecca Lucille Montgomery, 44, Trumann police said in a social media post.

— Rafael Escalera Montoto, Arkansas Online, 22 Aug. 2026

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Rob and Michelle Reiner were killed on December 14, 2025, and Nick is charged with two counts of murder.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026
Son of a partisan fighter The son of a World War Two partisan fighter killed in 1945, Mladic was an officer in the old communist Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) when Yugoslavia's disintegration began in 1991.

— Ivana Sekularac, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026

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