Assassination

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Assassination \As*sas`si*na"tion\, n.
     The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  assassination
       n 1: an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation [syn: {character
            assassination}, {blackwash}]
       2: murder of a public figure by surprise attack

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ASSASSINATION, crim. law. A murder committed by an assassin. By
  assassination is understood a murder committed for hire in money, without
  any provocation or cause of resentment given by the person against whom the
  crime is directed. Ersk. Inst. B. 4, t. 4, n. 45.