When someone important is assassinated, they are murdered as a political act.
例句
Would the USA be radically different today if Kennedy had not been assassinated?...如果肯尼迪沒(méi)有被暗殺，今天的美國(guó)會(huì)有根本性的不同嗎？The plot to assassinate Martin Luther King had started long before he was actually killed.刺殺馬丁·路德·金的計(jì)劃在實(shí)施前醞釀已久。
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation