assassinated

1. 1.

   murdered by surprise attack for political reasons

   “the 20th century has seen too many assassinated leaders”

   Similardead

Questions about assassinated

What does assassinated mean?

assassinated means "murdered by surprise attack for political reasons".

How many syllables are in assassinated?

assassinated has 5 syllables: as-sas-si-na-ted. The stress falls on "sas". In IPA it is /əˈsæsəˌneɪtɪd/.

Is assassinated a common word?

assassinated is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with assassinated?

7 words rhyme with assassinated. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.