assassin
Definitions of assassin
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someone who kills by stranglingsynonyms: étrangleurtype of:tueursomeone who causes the death of a person or animal
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a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)synonyms: meurtriertypes:bouchera brutal indiscriminate murderertype of:contrevenant, contrevenante, criminel, malfaiteursomeone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crimetueursomeone who causes the death of a person or animal
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a woman murderertype of:meurtriera criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
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someone who murders by cutting the victim's throattype of:meurtriera criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
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someone who causes the death of a person or animalsynonyms: tueurtypes:bourreauan official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrantétrangleursomeone who kills by stranglingmeurtriera criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)suicidéa person who kills himself intentionallybouchera brutal indiscriminate murdererbourreauan executioner who hangs the condemned person
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a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deedtype of:meurtriera criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
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Language Gone Wrong: Words That Started Out as Errors
Language change is driven by mistakes. If every generation of children learned perfectly what they heard spoken around them, then languages would be exact duplicates of themselves, stretching years into the past. But this isn't what happens. Errors, mishearings, inversion of sounds, dropping and adding of sounds, all these phenomena and more drive historical language change. You'll find a few of these systematic inconsistencies that result in other word forms below, as well as singular instances that don't fit a pattern where linguists can pinpoint exactly what went "wrong."
