Assessination
(n.) The process of assessinating.
Britney Spears' nervous breakdown could be called a media assessination.
Assessinate
(v.) To analyse something to death; to assess or debate something beyond rationality until the only possible reaction is to drop it and let it lie. To assess an issue, situation or decision so long and hard that it loses all meaning, perspective or interest; to scrutinize a person beyond reason such that the assessor and/or assessed loses interest or the will to live.
conj. assessinat -es; -ing; -ed. See also Assessination.
conj. assessinat -es; -ing; -ed. See also Assessination.
(1) Britney Spears was was assessinated by the popular media. (2) Sandra had been single for five years; she tended to assessinate men. (3) Tom assessinated his choice of university degree subject and took a gap year instead.