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assassinates

assassinates is the plural of assassinate.

assassinates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of assassinate.

Meaning of assassinate

Noun

assassinate (plural assassinates)

  1. (obsolete) Assassination, murder.
    • Mor. Why? if I had made an assassinate upon your Father; vitiated your Mother: ravished your Sisters―
      Tru. I would kill you, Sir, I would kill you, if you had.
      Mor. Why? you do more in this, Sir: it were a vengeance centuple, for all facinorous Acts, that could be nam'd, to do that you do.
  2. (obsolete) An assassin.
    • Yet again, many of them deſperat hairebraines, raſh, careleſſe, fit to be Aſſaſinates, as being voide of all Feare and Sorrow […]1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Symptomes of the minde”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry...

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What is assassinates the plural of?
Assassinates is the plural of assassinate.

Words near assassinates in the dictionary

  1. assassin spiders
  2. assassinate
  3. assassinated
  4. assassinatee
  5. assassinatees
  6. assassinates
  7. assassinating
  8. assassination
  9. assassination market
  10. assassination marketplace
  11. assassination marketplaces

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