The difference between Assassinate and Murder
When used as nouns, assassinate means assassination, murder, whereas murder means an act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.
When used as verbs, assassinate means to murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons, whereas murder means to deliberately kill (a person or persons).
check bellow for the other definitions of Assassinate and Murder
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Assassinate as a verb:
To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons.
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Assassinate as a verb (figuratively):
To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.
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Assassinate as a noun (obsolete):
Assassination, murder.
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Assassinate as a noun (obsolete):
An assassin.
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Murder as a noun (countable):
An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.
Examples:
"There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone."
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Murder as a noun (uncountable):
The crime of deliberate killing of another human.
Examples:
"The defendant was charged with murder."
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Murder as a noun (uncountable, legal, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule):
The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.
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Murder as a noun (uncountable, used as a predicative noun):
Something terrible to endure.
Examples:
"This headache is murder."
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Murder as a noun (countable, collective):
A group of crows;
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Murder as a verb:
To deliberately kill (a person or persons).
Examples:
"The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband."
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Murder as a verb (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic):
To defeat decisively.
Examples:
"Our team is going to murder them."
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Murder as a verb:
To botch or mangle.
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Murder as a verb (figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic):
To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one's anger at somebody).
Examples:
"He's torn my best shirt. When I see him, I'll murder him!"
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Murder as a verb (figuratively, colloquial, British):
to devour, ravish.
Examples:
"I could murder a [[hamburger]] right now."