The difference between Assassination and Murder

When used as nouns, assassination means the murder of a person, especially for political reasons or for personal gain, whereas murder means an act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.


Murder is also verb with the meaning: to deliberately kill (a person or persons).

check bellow for the other definitions of Assassination and Murder

  1. Assassination as a noun:

    The murder of a person, especially for political reasons or for personal gain.

    Examples:

    "The assassination of the king occurred at night."

  1. 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."

  2. Murder as a noun (uncountable):

    The crime of deliberate killing of another human.

    Examples:

    "The defendant was charged with murder."

  3. 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.

  4. Murder as a noun (uncountable, used as a predicative noun):

    Something terrible to endure.

    Examples:

    "This headache is murder."

  5. Murder as a noun (countable, collective):

    A group of crows;

  1. Murder as a verb:

    To deliberately kill (a person or persons).

    Examples:

    "The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband."

  2. Murder as a verb (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic):

    To defeat decisively.

    Examples:

    "Our team is going to murder them."

  3. Murder as a verb:

    To botch or mangle.

  4. 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!"

  5. Murder as a verb (figuratively, colloquial, British):

    to devour, ravish.

    Examples:

    "I could murder a [[hamburger]] right now."