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Assassinate means the act of killing someone (usually a famous person) deliberately or the act of killing someone because you were hired to do so. (Verb)
An example of assassinate is pulling the trigger on a gun to kill a President.
Assassinate means 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.
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