Usually means: Killing someone for political reasons.
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  1. assassinating: Merriam-Webster
  2. assassinating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. assassinating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Assassinating, assassinating: Wordnik
  5. assassinating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. assassinating: Wiktionary
  7. Assassinating, assassinating: Dictionary.com
  8. assassinating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Assassinating: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Assassinating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Assassinating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. assassinating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. assassinating: FreeDictionary.org
  14. assassinating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. assassinating: Legal dictionary

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  1. assassinating: Encyclopedia

(Note: See assassinate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (assassinate)

verb:  To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons.
verb:  (figuratively) To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.
noun:  (obsolete) Assassination, murder.
noun:  (obsolete) An assassin.
▸ Also see assassinate


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