ASSASSINATED Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

assassinated

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past tense of assassinate

as in murdered

to put to death deliberately President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth

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Recent Examples of assassinated After Kirk was assassinated, the Congressional Black Caucus put out a statement condemning political violence. — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Sep. 2026 The judge also cited retaliation against people who were critical of Charlie Kirk after the Turning Point USA co-founder was assassinated last September. — ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026 Among them is the son of Fred Hampton, a senior leader of the Black Panther Party who was assassinated by the FBI in 1969, at the age of 21. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 22 Aug. 2026 The congregation was the organizing place for the sanitation workers’ strike that brought King to town in March 1968, weeks before he was assassinated there. — Jason Wollschleger, The Conversation, 19 Aug. 2026 Kennedy, who was born after her father was assassinated, credits not only him but her whole family with inspiring her. — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026 Just over a decade later, in November 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated during a Texas motorcade, with his wife by his side. — Freya Drohan, InStyle, 16 Aug. 2026 Dozens of senior Iranian officials were assassinated in airstrikes when the conflict began at the end of February, but Araghchi does not appear to have been a target, perhaps because he is seen as a possible interlocutor in any settlement. — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026 Someone had apparently vandalized Altman's Wikipedia page, claiming he was assassinated in Seattle. — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026

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Lorca was murdered in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War by followers of Francisco Franco, and his body remains undiscovered to this day.

— Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 1 Sep. 2026
Ideologies held by Kirk and others like him, Miles said, are the reason Black people have been violently murdered.

— Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Sep. 2026

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According to the United Nations, executions have surged over the last six months, with at least 56 people executed on national security charges since mid-March — including 27 linked to protests earlier this year.

— Greg Myre, NPR, 28 Aug. 2026
Code executed during that interruption altered the prediction machinery before the processor could use it.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026

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