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

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Showcasing its range, a different Britain’s Most Notorious Crime Investigations ep tells the story of Mahek Bukhari, a TikTok influencer who murdered her mother’s lover and his friend in a high-speed car chase.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 22 July 2026
The Girl in the River centers on an experienced criminologist and a young psychologist who head to a small Mississippi town after a girl is murdered and her twin sister goes missing.

— Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026

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Duckett, a former Mascotte police officer convicted of the 1987 death of 11-year-old Teresa McAbee, is to be executed at noon on that date.

— Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2026
The award is being executed in partnership with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and is intended to speed the transition of the company’s technology from development into operational use.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026

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An Iranian missile and drone attack has killed nine fighters of an Iranian-Kurdish group based in neighboring Iraq, according to an official from the group.

— Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
The defense attorneys argued Harris fired the first shots that killed Payton friend Turner and set off the barrage that led to the deaths of bystanders Martinez, Alexander, and Davis.

— Darrell Smith July 16, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2026

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