assassin

[US]/ə'sæsɪn/
[UK]/ə'sæsn/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a person who murders a political or public figure, often for ideological or political reasons; a member of a secret Muslim sect who killed Crusaders

Phrases & Collocations

skilled assassin

silent assassin

Example Sentences

was felled by an assassin's bullet.

Kennedy was struck down by an assassin’s bullet.

The assassin was adjudged an extremist.

Lucia hired an assassin to eliminate her rival.

He is paralyzed as the result of a would-be assassin's bullet years ago.

let us say, for the sake of argument, that the plotter and the assassin are one and the same person.

Real-world Examples

We are not assassins. We protect people.

Source: TV series Person of Interest Season 3

Any disgruntled citizen could be the assassin.

Source: TV series Person of Interest Season 3

Yeah. My fingers are basically tension assassins.

Source: S03

The dagger found What sort of imbecile arms an assassin with his own blade

Source: Game of Thrones (Season 1)

And Hoshi here used to be a paid assassin.

Source: Friends Season 3

Five or six gunshots were fired by an unknown, would-be assassin.

Source: Forrest Gump Selected Highlights

Perhaps the nastiest of them all was an assassin bug.

Source: Insect Kingdom Season 2 (Original Soundtrack Version)

Any delay in arresting the assassin, I observed, might give him time to perpetrate some fresh atrocity.

Source: A Study in Scarlet by Sherlock Holmes

What the most surprising is that certain assassin bugs still use this tactic today.

Source: Insect Kingdom Season 2 (Original Soundtrack Version)

One suspects it took the assassin bug millions of years to recognize that odor.

Source: Insect Kingdom Season 2 (Original Soundtrack Version)

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