Assassination
[əˌsæsɪˈneɪʃn] or [əˌsæsəˈneɪʃn]
Definition
(n.) The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Murder (by secret assault).
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Examples
- Three burglaries, two forgeries, and a midnight assassination. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There was the constant attempt to approximate the conditions of successful assassination that accompanied the demolition. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I was trusted with the secret of Colonel Herncastle's plan for escaping assassination. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Shortly after Edison's arrival at Cincinnati came the close of the Civil War and the assassination of President Lincoln. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I thought that you did not believe in political assassination. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He liked to force them to betray a certain fear, which made them alike falter in resolve and recoil in action--the fear, simply, of assassination. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He had kept the Diamond, in flat defiance of assassination, in India. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I leave others to draw their own conclusions in reference to the secret of the assassination as I have drawn mine. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But I still believe that political assassination can be said to be practised very extensively. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Those bombs at Los Angeles, assassination and terrorism, are compounded of courage, indignation and ignorance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Not least among the blessings is a shattering of the good-and-bad-man theory: the assassination of tyrants or the adoration of saviors. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Could the man Weller, in a moment of remorse, have divulged some secret conspiracy for his assassination? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Be this as it may, Mr. Lincoln's assassination was particularly unfortunate for the entire nation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- His story, with its constant assassinations and executions, reads rather like the history of some savage chief than of a civilized monarch. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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