Hyphenation of assassinate

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word assassinate? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

as-sas-si-nate

Definitions of assassinate:

1.	Murder Especially of socially prominent persons Anwar Sadat was assassinated because many people did not like his peace politics with Israel
2.	Destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation He assassinated his enemy's character

Synonyms of assassinate:

verb	kill
verb	defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch

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