How Many Syllables Are in Assassinate

The word Assassinate has three syllables: as-sas-si-nate.
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Definition of Assassinate

to murder someone, especially a public figure, by sudden or secret attack, often for political reasons

How should Assassinate divide into syllables

The word has 4 syllables. The vowels are 'a', 'a', 'i', and 'a'. The consonants are 's', 's', 'n', 't'

Part of Speech - Assassinate

The president was assassinated by a sniper.

Sentences with Assassinate

• The dictator ordered his secret police to assassinate his political opponents.
• The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered World War I.
• John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
• The CIA organized an assassination attempt on Fidel Castro.
• The prime minister narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by a suicide bomber.
• The journalist was assassinated for exposing corruption in the government.
• The mafia boss ordered a hit on his rival to assassinate him.
• The rebels attempted to assassinate the king.
• The assassin's bullet missed its target and hit a bystander instead.
• The police arrested the assassin before he could carry out the assassination.

Quotes with Assassinate

• "The only way to change the world is to make a little noise: to assassinate." - William S. Burroughs
• "One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin
• "I do not assassinate people. Anymore. I'm retired." - John Malkovich in "RED"
• "You can kill a man, but not an idea." - Medgar Evers
• "The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin
• "Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell
• "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter." - Ernest Hemingway
• "Assassination is the extreme form of censorship." - George Bernard Shaw
• "I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face." - Augusto Pinochet
• "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." - Malcolm X
• "I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun." - Arnold Schwarzenegger
• "The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Abraham Lincoln
• "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov
• "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
• "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus
• "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." - Thomas Jefferson
• "If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." - Mark Twain
• "I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you." - Genghis Khan
• "In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
• "I'm not a psychopath, Anderson, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research." - Sherlock Holmes

Number of characters in Assassinate

11 ( a, s, s, a, s, s, i, n, a, t, e )

Unique letters in Assassinate

6 ( a, s, i, n, t, e )

Assassinate Backwards

etanissassa

How to Pronounce Assassinate

IPA (International): ʌˈsæsʌˌneɪt

ARA (American): ʌˈsæsʌˌnet

EPA (English): ʌˈsæsʌˌneɪt

AH-SAE-SAH-NEY-T