Synonyms:
assassinated
Meaning: murdered by surprise attack for political reasons; "the 20th century has seen too many assassinated leaders"
Usage examples
III. JAMES CLEMENT, a Catholic, assassinated Henry III.
April 14, assassinated in Ford's Theater, Washington, by a mad actor, Wilkes Booth.
You have continued your course of villany; you have robbed--you have assassinated."
On June 28, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated at Serajevo, the capital of Bosnia, an Austrian province occupied mainly by Serbs.
The coachman humbly represented to "monsieur l'Inspecteur," that the Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the assassinated man, and with mire from the assassin.