OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 20093

assassin

/əˈsæsɪn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
asesina • asesino • magnicida • sicario
Someone who intentionally kills a person, especially a professional who kills a public or political figure.
The hand that held the bond of so many jarring interests lay powerless beneath the pall. The perils of war had been about him, and the midnight assassin had watched his path; yet h…
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause can ever be stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
asesina • asesino
Any ruthless killer.
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