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Assassinate vs Abolish - What's the difference?

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Assassinate is a related term of abolish.


As verbs the difference between assassinate and abolish

is that assassinate is to murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons while abolish is to end a law, system, institution, custom or practice .

As a noun assassinate

is (obsolete) assassination, murder.

assassinate

English

Verb

  • To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons.
  • * , II.29:
  • The Assassines, a nation depending of Phœnicia, are esteemed among the Mahometists.
  • (figuratively) To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.
  • * Dryden
  • Your rhymes assassinate our fame.
  • * Milton
  • Such usage as your honourable lords / Afford me, assassinated and betrayed.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Assassination, murder.
  • (obsolete) An assassin.
  • * , vol.1, III.i.2:
  • Yet again, many of them desperate hairbrains, rash, careless, fit to be assassinates , as being void of all fear and sorrow […].

    See also

    * Wikipedia article on Assassins * murder * regicide ----

    abolish

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To end a law, system, institution, custom or practice.
  • Slavery was abolished in the nineteenth century.
  • * 2002', William Schabas, ''The '''abolition of the death penalty in international law (Cambridge University Press):
  • (archaic) To put an end to or destroy, as a physical object; to wipe out.
  • * :
  • And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot.
  • * :
  • His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him.

    Synonyms

    * abrogate, annul, cancel, dissolve, nullify, repeal, revoke

    Antonyms

    * establish, found

    References