smear vs assassinate

assassinate vs smear

smear is a noun but assassinate is not a noun.

smear and assassinate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
smear	Yes	No	Yes	No
assassinate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, assassinate is a hyponym of smear; that is, assassinate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than smear:

smear: charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
assassinate: destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation

Other hyponyms of smear include libel, badmouth, drag through the mud, malign, traduce.

smear (noun)	assassinate (noun)
an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
a blemish made by dirt
a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope
slanderous defamation

smear (verb)	assassinate (verb)
charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone	destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation
make a smudge on; soil by smudging	murder; especially of socially prominent persons
stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it

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