assassinate
verb
[ əˈsasɪneɪt ]
• murder (an important person) for political or religious reasons.
• "the organization's leader had been assassinated four months before the coup"
Similar:
murder,
kill,
execute,
slaughter,
butcher,
liquidate,
eliminate,
exterminate,
terminate,
hit,
slay,
Origin:
early 17th century: from medieval Latin assassinat- ‘killed’, from the verb assassinare, from assassinus (see assassin).
