Assassinate - English meaning

noun

A person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop.

Usage examples:

Markets often have butchers or cooked meat shops that specialize in the head and trotters, that is,…

verb

Slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food.

Usage examples:

A ban on butchering downer cows - animals that stagger, can't walk, or exhibit other signs of bse-w…

adjective

Having an appearance or other qualities of a type traditionally seen as masculine.

Usage examples:

A butch woman in a baseball cap

verb

Completely remove or get rid of (something).

Usage examples:

A policy that would eliminate inflation

verb

To remove or take away something

Usage examples:

You can never totally eliminate the possibility of human error., arts programs face elimination in …

verb

To completely remove something that is not wanted or needed

Usage examples:

The problem we confront today is there is no one thing that can eliminate our dependency on petrole…

verb

Put (a plan, order, or course of action) into effect.

Usage examples:

The corporation executed a series of financial deals

verb

To do or perform something planned

Usage examples:

Now that we have approval, we can go ahead and execute the plan.

verb

To do or perform something in a planned way

Usage examples:

Local authority officials will check that the work is being executed according to the plans submitt…

verb

Destroy completely.

Usage examples:

After exterminating the entire population, the soldiers set fire to the buildings

verb

To kill all the animals or people in a particular place or of a particular type

Usage examples:

International measures have been taken to prevent the extermination of whales.

verb

Bring one's hand or a tool or weapon into contact with (someone or something) quickly and forcefully.

Usage examples:

The woman hit the mugger with her umbrella

noun

An instance of striking or being struck.

Usage examples:

Few structures can withstand a hit from a speeding car

verb

Deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument

verb

Cause the death of (a person, animal, or other living thing).

Usage examples:

Her father was killed in a car crash

noun

An act of killing, especially of one animal by another.

Usage examples:

A lion has made a kill

noun

(in place names, especially in new york, new jersey, and pennsylvania) a stream, creek, or tributary.

Usage examples:

Kill van kull

verb

Wind up the affairs of (a business) by ascertaining liabilities and apportioning assets.

Usage examples:

If the company was liquidated, there would be enough funds released to honour the debts

verb

To sell your investments or property to make them available in the form of money

Usage examples:

Investors have started to liquidate their mutual funds., the company was forced into liquidation.

verb

If a business liquidates or is liquidated, it is closed so that its assets can be sold to pay its debts

Usage examples:

The only way for management to return value to shareholders in the short term is to liquidate the c…

noun

The unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.

Usage examples:

The brutal murder of a german holidaymaker

verb

Kill (someone) unlawfully and with premeditation.

Usage examples:

He was accused of murdering his wife's lover

verb

Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being

verb

Kill (animals) for food.

Usage examples:

At present the abattoir is slaughtering animals for the domestic market

noun

The killing of animals for food.

Usage examples:

Thousands of calves were exported to the continent for slaughter

noun

The killing of animals for their meat, or the killing of large numbers of animals in a cruel manner

Usage examples:

We must find ways of reducing the slaughter on the highways (= deaths of many people in car acciden…

verb

Kill (a person or animal) in a violent way.

Usage examples:

St george slew the dragon

noun

Variant spelling of sley.

noun

A tool used in weaving to force the weft into place.

verb

Bring to an end.

Usage examples:

He was advised to terminate the contract

verb

To end or stop, or to cause something to end or stop

Usage examples:

[ i ] trains that used to terminate in hoboken now run into new york., [ t ] it sounded like she wa…

verb

To end or to make something end

Usage examples:

The takeover talks terminated without agreement., how do i terminate my subscription?, terminate a …