assassins
Hired deadly operatives
Assassins is the plural of assassin—a person who murders someone, usually a public figure, typically for political or ideological reasons or for payment.
The word implies premeditation and often stealth: The assassins waited in the crowd.
Extended uses include paid killers in fiction and gaming, where assassin is a character class specializing in stealth kills.
Professional paid murderer
- sniperConcealed precision shooter
- poisonHarmful ingested substance
- silencerSound-dampening gun attachment
- scopeExtent or range
bullet · dagger · ambush · garrote · blade · strangulation · crossbow · disguise
Enter secretly to observe
- shadowLight blocked by object
- silentProducing no sound
- cloakSleeveless outer wrap
- undetectedNot discovered yet
prowl · covert · evasion · ninja · clandestine · incognito · subterfuge · disguise
Enforceable written agreement
- mercenarySoldier fighting for pay
- bountyReward for capture
- operativeCovert field agent
- professionalCredentialed in one's field
fee · employer · commission · payment · anonymous · client · mission · assignment
Professional mutual-aid society
- brotherhoodKinship among men
- orderMethodical arrangement or request
- syndicateCombined group pursuing shared interest
- clanRelated group sharing ancestry
cabal · cell · network · sect · society · faction · Templars · creed
Roman who killed Caesar
- BoothHistorical surname
- OswaldMale name, Germanic origin
- ninjaJapanese espionage agent
- shinobiJapanese covert operative
thug · fedayeen · zealot · regicide · tyrannicide · antiquity · medieval · Renaissance
Abrupt seizure of power
- regimeSystem of governance
- conspiracyClandestine coordinated scheming
- plotStoryline or land parcel
- treacheryDeliberate violation of trust
betrayal · intrigue · throne · succession · usurper · tyrant · revolution · destabilization
hitman
Professional paid murderer
- sniperConcealed precision shooter
- poisonHarmful ingested substance
- silencerSound-dampening gun attachment
scope · bullet · dagger · ambush · garrote · blade · strangulation · crossbow · disguise · sabotage
infiltrate
Enter secretly to observe
undetected · prowl · covert · evasion · ninja · clandestine · incognito · subterfuge · disguise · blending
contract
Enforceable written agreement
professional · fee · employer · commission · payment · anonymous · client · mission · assignment · handler
guild
Professional mutual-aid society
- brotherhoodKinship among men
- orderMethodical arrangement or request
- syndicateCombined group pursuing shared interest
clan · cabal · cell · network · sect · society · faction · Templars · creed · initiation
Brutus
Roman who killed Caesar
shinobi · thug · fedayeen · zealot · regicide · tyrannicide · antiquity · medieval · Renaissance · Borgia
coup
Abrupt seizure of power
- regimeSystem of governance
- conspiracyClandestine coordinated scheming
- plotStoryline or land parcel
treachery · betrayal · intrigue · throne · succession · usurper · tyrant · revolution · destabilization · overthrow
- Action Moviesaction movies, action films, action scenes, action stars, explosions
- notable peoplepoliticians, artists, leaders, writers, scientists
- roguesrogue, rogues, scoundrel, scoundrels, rascal
- tough guystough guys, tough guy, thug, thugs, enforcer
- warriorsfighter, knight, footsoldier, barbarian, samurai
- Ancient ChinaShang dynasty, Han dynasty, Confucius, Warring States period, oracle bones
assassinsbodyguards
Personal protection agents
protectors · guardians · security details · defenders · sentinels
assassinssaviors
Those who rescue others
rescuers · lifesavers · healers · heroes · guardian angels
- Lincoln assassinationMurder of sixteenth president
- character assassinationDestroying someone's good name
- assassination attemptEffort to kill a prominent figure
- assassination plotScheme to kill a target
- Assassin's CreedHistorical stealth action franchise
- political assassinationKilling for governmental change
assassin, assassinate, assassination, assassinated, assassinating, assassinates, assassin's