Assassinate vs Assassinated - What's the difference?
assassinate | assassinated |
To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons.
* , II.29:
(figuratively) To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.
* Dryden
* Milton
(obsolete) Assassination, murder.
(obsolete) An assassin.
* , vol.1, III.i.2:
(assassinate)
To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons.
* , II.29:
(figuratively) To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.
* Dryden
* Milton
(obsolete) Assassination, murder.
(obsolete) An assassin.
* , vol.1, III.i.2:
As verbs the difference between assassinate and assassinated
is that assassinate is to murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons while assassinated is (assassinate).As a noun assassinate
is (obsolete) assassination, murder.assassinate
English
Verb
- The Assassines, a nation depending of Phœnicia, are esteemed among the Mahometists.
- Your rhymes assassinate our fame.
- Such usage as your honourable lords / Afford me, assassinated and betrayed.
Noun
(en noun)- 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 ----
assassinated
English
Verb
(head)assassinate
English
Verb
- The Assassines, a nation depending of Phœnicia, are esteemed among the Mahometists.
- Your rhymes assassinate our fame.
- Such usage as your honourable lords / Afford me, assassinated and betrayed.
Noun
(en noun)- 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 ----