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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President Joe Biden extended it after Haitiian President, Jovenel Moïse was assassinated on July 7, 2021.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2026
In the late 1990s, there were calls for the citizenship of Yigal Amir, who assassinated former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, to be removed.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of assassinated

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That was the fate of Jeffrey Dahmer’s former apartment building and the Idaho house where Bryan Kohberger murdered four college students.

— Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 21 Sep. 2026
In 1892, Andrew Borden and his wife, Abby, were murdered in broad daylight inside their Massachusetts home, just blocks from the town’s busy center.

— Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of murdered

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For example, SpaceX has made three successful catches of Super Heavy back at SpaceX’s Starbase, Texas, launch facility, and has executed a handful of Raptor 3 single-engine relights on Ship while in space.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 26 Sep. 2026
Cleaning up three years of contracts matters less than ensuring next month’s contracts land in the right place, signed, on the day they are executed.

— Jeremy Bradley-Silverio Donato, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026

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The United Nations said last week that more Ukrainian civilians were killed and wounded in the first eight months of 2026 than in the whole of last year.

— HANNA ARHIROVA, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026
This Uhura manages to make an emergency transport back to Enterprise, but Scotty is killed.

— Joe Otterson, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026

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