Assassinate is defined as the act of killing someone (usually a famous person) deliberately, or the act of killing someone after being hired to do so.
(verb)An example of assassinate is pulling the trigger on a gun to kill a President.
The definition of assassinate is to harm or destroy an idea or someone's reputation.
(verb)An example of assassinate is when a local school teacher looses his job after someone tells the community of the teacher's past history of theft.
See assassinate in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb assassinated, assassinating
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See assassinate in American Heritage Dictionary 4
transitive verb as·sas·si·nat·ed, as·sas·si·nat·ing, as·sas·si·nates
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