Synonyms for assassination
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1. character assassination, assassination, blackwashnoun

   an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation

   Synonyms:
   character assassination, black lotion, blackwash

2. assassinationnoun

   murder of a public figure by surprise attack

   Synonyms:
   character assassination, blackwash

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1. assassinationnoun

   Synonyms:
   murder (by secret assault)

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1. List of paraphrases for "assassination":

   murder, assassinating, assassinate, assassinated, killing, assassinations

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1. Le Drian:

   This was an assassination attempt.

2. Qassem Soleimani:

   I shed no tears for Irans General Suleimani, but his assassination at Trumps personal order risks a massive Persian Gulf war and also violated both domestic and international law unless it was demonstrably necessary to prevent an imminent lethal attack by Suleimani.

3. Irving Layton:

   In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

4. Thomas Doherty:

   I don't think the funeral will be the last great global event of the television era, but, alas, the great global TV events of the future will probably be disasters : an assassination, a terrorist attack, a deliberate or accidental nuclear event, a huge natural disaster, a pandemic, a coup in a major North American democracy — something everyone will have to watch.

5. John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr [1965]:

   If I am to die, this is the week for it. -- John F. Kennedy (to aide John McClone in response to a CIA report about rumours of an assassination plot), June 1962.