OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 16453

assassinate

/əˈsæsɪneɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
asesinar
To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons.
The Assassines, a nation depending of Phœnicia, are esteemed among the Mahometists[…]. And thus was our Earle Raymond of Tripoli murthered or assassinated (this word is borrowed fr…