- assassin, assassinator, bravo - a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a treacherous surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed; "his assassins were hunted down like animals"; "assassinators of kings and emperors"
--1 is a kind of murderer, liquidator, manslayer
--1 has particulars: Booth, John Wilkes Booth; Oswald, Lee Harvey OswaldDerived form: verb assassinate1