Assassin
[ə'sæsɪn] or [ə'sæsn]
Definition
(noun.) a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed; 'his assassins were hunted down like animals'; 'assassinators of kings and emperors'.
(noun.) a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders.
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Definition
(n.) One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense.
(v. t.) To assassinate.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Murderer, slayer, cut-throat, assassinator, bravo.
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Definition
n. one who usually for a reward kills by surprise or secretly.—v.t. Assas′sinate to murder by surprise or secret assault: (Milton) to maltreat: also figuratively to destroy by treacherous means as a reputation.—n. (obs.) one who assassinates.—ns. Assassinā′tion secret murder; Assas′sinator.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
If you are the one to receive the assassin's blow, you will not surmount all your trials. To see another, with the assassin standing over him with blood stains, portends that misfortune will come to the dreamer. To see an assassin under any condition is a warning that losses may befall you through secret enemies.
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Examples
- The thern can never tell from what dark shadow an assassin may spring upon his back. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Of the assassin, or assassins, nothing was known; they had escaped. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But whether the assassin's dagger reached one fair bosom or another, only time will divulge. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Now, first of all, presuming that the assassin entered the house, how did he or she come in? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I had the conscience of an assassin, and was haunted by a vague sense of enormous wickedness. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There can be no question that this was snatched from the face or the person of the assassin. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Accursed assassin! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I am the assassin of those most innocent victims; they died by my machinations. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- An assassin does not come unarmed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Don't go to him, I called out of the window, he's an assassin! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He felt that the family dignity was struck at by an assassin's hand. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Whatever Olympias may have done about her husband's assassin, history does not doubt about her treatment of her supplanter, Cleopatra. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Of the assassin, or assassins, nothing was known; they had escaped. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Carthoris, Kantos Kan, Tars Tarkas, Hor Vastus, and Xodar might even now be the victims of Zat Arras' assassins, or else his prisoners. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Silent, humane, indispensable in hospital and prison, using his art equally among assassins and victims, he was a man apart. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The consciousness that he hunted assassins was the spur in his high-mettled temper's flank. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- President of Assassins, cried Robespierre, I demand speech! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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