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    » Assassination may also be used as a form of hyperbole, as in the phrase character assassination, meaning an attempt to impugn another's character, and thus kill, or "assassinate" his ...

    » verb (used with object), -nat·ed, -nat·ing. 1. to kill suddenly or secretively, esp. a politically prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously.

    » President William McKinley was shot by Leon F. Czolgosz, on September 6, 1901, at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley died on September 14.

    » 20 Aug 1940: Ramon Mercader attempts to assassinate Leon Trotsky with an ice pick to the back of the head. Trotsky survives, telling his guards as they began to beat the would-be ...

    » verb (used with object), -nat⋅ed, -nat⋅ing. 1. to kill suddenly or secretively, esp. a politically prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously.