English-Spanish translations for assassinate

• asesinar
  El pasado viernes la organización terrorista ETA volvió a asesinar. Just last Friday, the terrorist organisation ETA assassinated again.
  Y es una empresa tan pudiente y tan poderosa que puede mover muchos hilos y puede hacer asesinar a muchas personas. The business is rich and powerful enough to pull a lot of strings and assassinate a lot of people.
  Luis Guillermo Pérez, también defensor de los derechos humanos, insiste en que hay un plan, llamado el plan de los Cien, para asesinar hasta cien defensores de los derechos humanos. Luis Guillermo Pérez, also a human rights defender, insists that there is a plan, called the Hundred plan, to assassinate up to one hundred human rights defenders.
• matar

Definition of assassinate

• To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons.
• To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack
• Assassination, murder

Related words

• assassination
• assassinatrix
• assassinator
• assassinatress
• assassination attempt
• character assassination