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 This is where Catto was assassinated 155 years ago during a tumultuous Election Day in 1871. — Timothy Welbeck, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2026 Yeah, people just want to see if I really did get assassinated by Madonna’s Cartel. — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2026 The 21-year-old Michigan State senior is also head of the local chapter of Turning Point, the group for young conservatives whose founder, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated last year. — Jacqueline Ganun, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2026 On July 7, 2021, Moïse was assassinated inside his second-floor bedroom. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026 He was assassinated in Paris in February 1984, shot on a street outside his residence close to the Eiffel Tower. — ABC News, 30 Sep. 2026 Nearly sixty years later, King Philip—the Wampanoag leader who tried to fight the English Pilgrims—was assassinated on August 12, 1676. — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026 Three of the sisters were assassinated in 1960, turning them into national heroines alongside symbols of both popular and feminist resistance. — Alex Ritman, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026 Imagine if someone came into your country and assassinated your president. — CBS News, 27 Sep. 2026

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The flow of money from Qatar into Gaza has taken on new significance since October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists stormed southern Israel, murdered some 1,200 people, and took 251 more hostage.

— Eric Cortellessa, Time, 18 Oct. 2026
The child was Leslie Ann Downey, one of five victims murdered by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between 1963 and 1965.

— Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2026

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Instead of flying the drone remotely with individual controls, the F-22 pilot sent high-level tactical instructions that the drone’s onboard autonomy software interpreted and executed.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
There's no one character who came up with the idea and executed it … the existence of AI today comes down to many papers, many individual discoveries, and a whole lot of obsession.

— Cooper Katz McKim, NPR, 16 Oct. 2026

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