Synonyms of bump off

bump off

verb

as in to assassinate

to put to death deliberately

these drug dealers mean business, and they'll bump off anyone who gets in their way

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assassinate
• murder
• slay
• execute
• put away
• take out
• kill
• off
• get
• rub out
• dispatch
• do away with
• neutralize
• terminate
• ice
• liquidate
• knock off
• cut down
• destroy
• slaughter
• do in
• whack
• shoot
• carry off
• snuff
• blow away
• croak
• shoot down
• wipe out
• blot out
• fell
• claim
• eliminate
• mow (down)
• massacre
• butcher
• smite
• eradicate
• zap
• annihilate
• exterminate

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• raise
• restore
• revive
• animate
• resurrect
• resuscitate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bump off

The jury had not yet decided on punitive damages when the settlement was reached. Meta and X, formerly Twitter, paid Trump $25 million and $10 million respectively to resolve his suits seeking damages for being bumped off the sites after the January 2021 siege of the U.S. Capitol. —David Folkenflik, NPR, 21 Feb. 2025

Miller was bumped off the top power-play unit in favour of Jonathan Lekkerimäki. —Harman Dayal, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025

Yes, but: Newlyweds Jackie and Rachel Robinson were bumped off two flights from Los Angeles to Florida to allow white passengers to have their seats, Rachel Robinson told NPR in 2010. —Russell Contreras, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025

That’s a tough pill to swallow for a lot of GOP members, many of whom are reeling from watching Gov. Greg Abbott (R) bump off longtime allies who differed with him on school vouchers. —Saul Elbein, The Hill, 5 Jan. 2025

As was the case with July's Republican National Convention, DNC nightly schedules are usually only released the day of and are subject to changes throughout the night, and the Tennessee Three's bump off the schedule is not unusual. —Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 22 Aug. 2024

And the American women were, plainly, awful for the first 20 minutes, kicking the ball all over creation, getting bumped off their spots on the floor regularly and losing the energy battle to the ferocious French defenders. —David Aldridge, The Athletic, 11 Aug. 2024

The camera follows the dog into a retro tiled bathroom, where Elizabeth Berkley is sitting in a shell-pink bathtub wearing a matching silk robe cutting grotesque black bumps off of her leg. —Katie Rife, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024

So, when people describe the Fed as driving a car through a tunnel with a windshield painted black, guiding itself with the rearview mirrors, oil demand forecasting is more like feeling your way bumping off the walls. —Michael Lynch, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024