Assassinate vs. Murder

Assassinateverb

To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons.

Assassinateverb

(figuratively) To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.

Assassinatenoun

(obsolete) Assassination, murder.

Assassinatenoun

(obsolete) An assassin.

Assassinateverb

To kill by surprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence.

Assassinateverb

To assail with murderous intent; hence, by extended meaning, to maltreat exceedingly.

Assassinatenoun

An assassination, murder, or murderous assault.

Assassinatenoun

An assassin.

Assassinateverb

murder; especially of socially prominent persons;

Assassinateverb

destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation;

Murdernoun

(countable) An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.

Murdernoun

(uncountable) The crime of deliberate killing of another human.

Murdernoun

The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.

Murdernoun

Something terrible to endure.

Murdernoun

A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.

Murderverb

To deliberately kill (a person or persons).

Murderverb

To defeat decisively.

Murderverb

To botch or mangle.

Murderverb

To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).

Murderverb

to devour, ravish.

Murdernoun

The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.

Murderverb

To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.

Murderverb

To destroy; to put an end to.

Murderverb

To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.

Murdernoun

unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being

Murderverb

kill intentionally and with premeditation;

Murderverb

alter so as to make unrecognizable;

Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. This state of mind may, depending upon the jurisdiction, distinguish murder from other forms of unlawful homicide, such as manslaughter.