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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
assassination
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an assassination attempt (=an attempt to kill a leader)
▪ De Gaulle survived an assassination attempt in 1961.
an assassination plot
▪ The assassination plot to kill General de Gaulle was unsuccessful.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
political
▪ Zak saying it was political assassination and nothing to do with the staff of the paper.
▪ While there is political violence, it has not descended to political assassination.
▪ So were my years of flying in and out of countries where political torture and assassination were par for the course.
▪ The press, too, was irresponsible and factional, given to vitriolic personal attacks and political character assassination.
■ NOUN
attempt
▪ It was the scene of a failed assassination attempt on the royal couple at a charity concert nine years ago.
▪ There was shouting, the kind of confused commotion that usually attends an assassination attempt.
▪ In December 1989 he had survived a car-bomb assassination attempt in Cairo.
▪ So far, no material evidence has linked Pyongyang to the assassination attempt.
▪ There was tension-Gligorov survived an assassination attempt-but no fighting.
▪ Patricio Martnez survived the assassination attempt.
▪ It was clear he had had nothing to do with the assassination attempt.
▪ The White Lions protected him from many assassination attempts and his personal retinue of Sapherian wizards countered all death-spells.
character
▪ But if character assassination were a crime, there'd be a long list of suspects.
▪ But does this justify the character assassination in which Grassley et al have engaged?
▪ Those who go in for character assassination create human conflicts and can easily end up as victims.
▪ What he had just heard was character assassination.
▪ They have turned character assassination into a state-of-the-art enterprise to get big ratings.
▪ Democrats are not innocent in the game of character assassination.
▪ There are numerous recent cases of character assassination and reputation assault that would discourage any sane person from accepting high government appointment.
▪ The press, too, was irresponsible and factional, given to vitriolic personal attacks and political character assassination.
plot
▪ Daley, as it turned out, seemed to be the only person who knew about an assassination plot.
■ VERB
follow
▪ Mihailovic wrote an obituary for a Belgrade newspaper following Arkan's assassination.
survive
▪ Within five years, surviving numerous assassination attempts, he managed to convert thousands of Calvinists back to Catholicism.
▪ In December 1989 he had survived a car-bomb assassination attempt in Cairo.
▪ Patricio Martnez survived the assassination attempt.
▪ There was tension-Gligorov survived an assassination attempt-but no fighting.
▪ Bernadette Devlin had a close call, but she survived the assassination attempt against her.
▪ His good fortune in surviving subsequent assassination attempts increased his belief in his divine protection.
▪ Like the Shah, Hassan had survived several assassination attempts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Flowers were laid to commemorate the anniversary of the assassination of John Lennon
▪ The assassination of Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo led to the First World War.
▪ the assassination of Lincoln
▪ Three foreign diplomats have been killed in a series of assassinations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His assassination was predictable, although how the murderer passed by the android security guards had yet to be explained.
▪ In December 1989 he had survived a car-bomb assassination attempt in Cairo.
▪ There was tension-Gligorov survived an assassination attempt-but no fighting.
▪ This was Antonio Lozano Gracias, whose appointment as attorney general Zedillo hoped would give the assassination investigations credibility.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assassination

Assassination \As*sas`si*na"tion\, n. The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
assassination

c.1600, noun of action from assassinate (v.).

Wiktionary
assassination

n. killing or murder for political reasons

WordNet
assassination
  1. n. an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation [syn: character assassination, blackwash]

  2. murder of a public figure by surprise attack

Wikipedia
Assassination

Assassination is the murder of a prominent person, often (but not always) a political leader or ruler, usually for political reasons or payment.

An assassination may be prompted by religious, political, or military motives; it is an act that may be done for financial gain, to avenge a grievance, from a desire to acquire fame or notoriety, or because of a military, security or insurgent group's command to carry out the homicide.

AssassiNation (Krisiun album)

AssassiNation is the sixth album by Krisiun, released in 2006 on Century Media. It is dedicated In Memory of Doc and Dimebag.

Assassination (1964 film)

, also known as The Assassin, is a 1964 film directed by Masahiro Shinoda.

Assassination (1987 film)

Assassination is a 1987 action- thriller film about a bodyguard who is assigned to protect the First Lady of the United States against an assassination plot.

The film was directed by Peter R. Hunt and stars Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Charles Howerton, Jan Gan Boyd, Stephen Elliott and Chris Alcaide.

Assassination (disambiguation)

Assassination is the targeted murder of a high-profile person, usually by surprise attack and for political purposes.

It may also refer to:

  • Assassination (1927 film), a silent German film directed by Richard Oswald
  • Assassination (1964 film), a 1964 Japanese film directed by Masahiro Shinoda
  • Assassination (1987 film), a 1987 American film starring Charles Bronson
  • AssassiNation, a 2006 album by death metal band Krisiun
  • Assassination (2015 film), a 2015 South Korean film directed by Choi Dong-hoon
Assassination (1927 film)

Assassination (German: Feme) is a 1927 German silent thriller film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Eduard Rothauser, Mathilde Sussin and Hans Stüwe. It was adapted from a novel by Vicki Baum. The film's art direction was by Gustav A. Knauer.

Assassination (2015 film)

Assassination is a 2015 South Korean espionage action film co-written and directed by Choi Dong-hoon.

Assassination (1967 film)

Assassination is a 1967 Italian thriller- spy film starring Henry Silva. It marked the directorial debut of Emilio P. Miraglia.

Usage examples of "assassination".

The siege on Glenn Abies is just one phase of a series of strategic federal assassinations, beginning with the murder of Order founder Robert Matthews and including the recent massacre at Waco.

On three occasions assassination plots resulted in the deaths of Alvarado clones who were playing the role of the Maximum Leader at public ceremonies.

The greatest number of them disdained to have recourse to a denial, and seemed less anxious for the preservation of their own lives than for the honour of the cause in which they had embarked, not with the view of assassination, as had been demonstrated, but for the purpose of ascertaining the true state of the public feeling, which had been represented by some factious intriguers as favourable to the Bourbons.

I was astonished beyond measure that this man who had plotted my assassination should speak of me as an intimate friend, and I determined to conceal my feelings and await events.

Lately, though, with his authority as a divi of the People all but openly chal- lenged, he realized that political maneuvering, character assassination, betrayal, deceit .

The unexpected, lurid death of Lannes-- Rigid as iron, reaped down like a straw-- Tiptoed Assassination haunting round In unthought thoroughfares, the near success Of Staps the madman, argue to forbid The riskful blood of my previsioned line And potence for dynastic empery To linger vialled in my veins alone.

I thought you was endeavouring to discover the authors of this assassination, and was applying to me for assistance.

The Cosa Nostra apparently expected to exfiltrate the killer from Cuba after the assassination by means of a fast boat.

Tomorrow morning I shall ask you to come with me before the magistrate to denounce this act of assassination, for if the man was killed it must be shewn that I only slew him to save my own life.

There was enough light for Kelida to see that Realgar had indeed attempted Hornfels assassination during the change of the Guard of Watch, and that for a very good reason.

Anor took full responsibility, justifying the attack in response to the assassinations of several officials - officials he had secretly ordered killed.

Great Confederation, through their real ruler, the Hadji Abdul Salam, Regent for the young Emir after the assassination of the Emir el Hamel el Kebir, impostor and usurper.

Chile: one the ostensible diplomatic one and the other - unknown to the State Department or the US ambassador to Chile, Edward Korry - a strategy of destabilization, kidnap and assassination, designed to provoke a military coup.

Longuet and Loriot resolutions called the war the consequence of imperialistic anarchy and bourgeois ambition, both denounced the imposition upon Germany of an unjust, or Bismarckian, peace, such as was imposed upon France in 1871, and both mourned the assassination of Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, and Kurt Eisner.

With practiced skill the Mull fended off such importunities or appointed a study commission, which invariably reported the Treaty lands to be havens of peace compared to the Retent, where the independent tribes conducted feuds, raids, assassinations, retaliations, outrages, massacres, atrocities and ambushes.