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assassin
[ uh-sas-in ]
noun
- a murderer, especially one who kills a politically prominent person for fanatical or monetary reasons.
- (initial capital letter) one of an order of Muslim fanatics, active in Persia and Syria from about 1090 to 1272, whose chief object was to assassinate Crusaders.
Assassin
1/ əˈæɪ /
noun
- a member of a secret sect of Muslim fanatics operating in Persia and Syria from about 1090 to 1256, murdering their victims, usually Crusaders
assassin
2/ əˈæɪ /
noun
- a murderer, esp one who kills a prominent political figure
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of assassin1
Example Sentences
“The Accountant 2” subtracts everything that worked about the 2016 original, a marvelous romp that starred Ben Affleck as Christian Wolff, a neurodivergent numbers geek who freelances as an auditor and assassin.
To be sure, an assassin’s bullets robbed Lennon and McCartney of any hope for establishing a new and abiding friendship in middle age.
Trump has a messiah complex, which has only grown since that missed assassin's bullet from July was hyped by his followers into "proof" that he's the Chosen One.
There is still plenty to see and learn in a landscape being devoured by primal forces, and many battles to be fought, whether with assassin stealth or full-blown epic intensity.
But opinion polls over decades have indicated that most Americans don't believe Oswald was the sole assassin.
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