asesinar

v.

1 to murder (person).

La mafia liquida a sus enemigos The Mafia liquidates its enemies.

2 to kill.

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asesinar

► verbo transitivo

1 to kill, murder

2 (magnicidio) to assassinate

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verb

1) to murder

2) assassinate

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VT

1) (=matar) to murder; (Pol) to assassinate

2) (=molestar) to pester, plague to death, pester the life out of *

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verbo transitivo to murder; (por razones políticas) to assassinate

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= kill, murder, assassinate, slay, slaughter.

Ex. He was looking for the book 'Flowers and Bullets and Freedom to kill' = Estaba buscando el libro "Flores, balas y libertad para matar".

Ex. The man who was the real-life Don Juan may not have been murdered for his acts of seduction but for his possible homosexuality and political subversiveness.

Ex. The verdict in the Oxford case was the result of limitations in the law of high treason combined with the absence of hard evidence that Oxford actually intended to assassinate the Queen.

Ex. A bronze statue of David slaying Goliath has been unveiled in Florence today after months of painstaking restoration work.

Ex. These small small but very sharp flakes were used by hunters to slaughter animals.

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verbo transitivo to murder; (por razones políticas) to assassinate

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= kill, murder, assassinate, slay, slaughter.

Ex: He was looking for the book 'Flowers and Bullets and Freedom to kill' = Estaba buscando el libro "Flores, balas y libertad para matar".

Ex: The man who was the real-life Don Juan may not have been murdered for his acts of seduction but for his possible homosexuality and political subversiveness.

Ex: The verdict in the Oxford case was the result of limitations in the law of high treason combined with the absence of hard evidence that Oxford actually intended to assassinate the Queen.

Ex: A bronze statue of David slaying Goliath has been unveiled in Florence today after months of painstaking restoration work.

Ex: These small small but very sharp flakes were used by hunters to slaughter animals.

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asesinar [A1 ]

vt

to murder; (por razones políticas) to assassinate

la víctima fue asesinada a sangre fría the victim was murdered in cold blood

la adaptación asesina la obra de Lorca the adaptation mutilates o butchers Lorca's play

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asesinar (conjugate asesinar) verbo transitivo
to murder;
(por razones políticas) to assassinate
asesinar verbo transitivo to murder
(perpetrar un magnicidio) to assassinate
En general, la acción (verbo) y el hecho (sustantivo) son murder, mientras a la persona la llamamos murderer. Sin embargo, cuando nos referimos al magnicidio, la acción es assassinate, el hecho es assassination y la persona es assassin.
'asesinar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
cargarse
- cepillarse
- ejecutar
- escabechar
- liquidar
- magnicida
- magnicidio
- ultimar
English:
assassin
- assassinate
- assassination
- conspire
- do away with
- murder
- slay

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asesinar vt

[persona] to murder; [rey, jefe de Estado] to assassinate; Fam [canción, obra teatral] to murder;

lo asesinaron a sangre fría he was murdered in cold blood

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asesinar

v/t murder; POL assassinate

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asesinar vt

1) : to murder

2) : to assassinate

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asesinar vb to murder

un hombre fue asesinado ayer a man was murdered yesterday

También existe el verbo to assassinate pero sólo se utiliza cuando se asesina a un personaje importante

el Presidente ha sido asesinado the President has been assassinated