Assassinate vs Destroy - What's the difference?
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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:
To cause destruction.
To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
To put down or euthanize.
(colloquial) To defeat soundly.
(computing) To remove data.
Assassinate is a related term of destroy.
As verbs the difference between assassinate and destroy
is that assassinate is to murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons while destroy isto damage beyond use or repair
. 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 ----
destroy
English
Verb
To damage beyond use or repair.
- The earthquake destroyed several apartment complexes.
- ''Hooligans destroy unprovoked
- ''Smoking destroys the natural subtlety of the palate
- Destroying a rabid dog is required by law.
- The memory leak happened because we forgot to destroy the temporary lists.
