English-Thai Dictionary

assassinate

VT ทำลาย  ทำอันตราย  harm tham-lai

 

assassinate

VT ลอบสังหาร  ลอบฆ่า  สังหาร  กำจัด  kill murder lob-sang-han

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ASSASSINATE

v.t. 1. To kill or attempt to kill, by surprise or secret assault; to murder by sudden violence. Assassin as a verb is not now used.
2. To way lay; to take by treachery.

 

ASSASSINATE

n.A murder or murderer. [not used. ]

 

ASSASSINATED

pp. Murdered by surprise or secret assault.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ASSASSINATE

As *sas "sin *ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assassinated; p. pr. & vb. n.Assassinating. ] Etym: [LL. assassinatus, p. p. of assassinare.]

 

1. To kill by surprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence. Help, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be assassinated. Dryden.

 

2. To assail with murderous intent; hence, by extended meaning, to maltreat exceedingly. [Archaic ] Your rhymes assassinate our fame. Dryden. Such usage as your honorable lords Afford me, assassinated and betrayed. Milton.

 

Syn. -- To kill; murder; slay. See Kill.

 

ASSASSINATE

As *sas "sin *ate, n. Etym: [F. assassinat. ]

 

1. An assassination, murder, or murderous assault. [Obs. ] If I had made an assassinate upon your father. B. Jonson.

 

2. An assassin. [Obs. ] Dryden.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

assassinate

as sas si nate |əˈsasəˌnāt əˈsæsnˌeɪt | ▶verb murder (an important person ) in a surprise attack for political or religious reasons. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from medieval Latin assassinat- ‘killed, ’ from the verb assassinare, from assassinus (see assassin ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

assassinate

as ¦sas ¦sin |ate |əˈsasɪneɪt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] murder (an important person ) for political or religious reasons. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from medieval Latin assassinat- ‘killed ’, from the verb assassinare, from assassinus (see assassin ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

assassinate

assassinate verb a plot to assassinate the premier: murder, kill, slaughter; eliminate, execute; liquidate; informal hit, terminate, knock off; literary slay.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

assassinate

assassinate verb John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963: murder, kill, execute, slaughter, butcher, liquidate, eliminate, exterminate, terminate; informal hit; literary slay.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

assassinate

as sas si nate /əsǽsɪnèɪt /動詞 ～s /-ts /; ～d /-ɪd /; -nating 他動詞 〈要人 〉を暗殺する ;〈名誉など 〉を傷つける (!しばしば受け身で; →kill 類義 ) .