Usually means: Kills someone for political reasons.
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  2. assassinates: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. assassinates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  8. assassinates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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(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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