assassinate

Object

• president: I could have assassinated a president or killed innocents in the name of my cause.
• activist: In one instance, missile systems used by the military to assassinate militant activists.
• leader: In 1975, the US Senate Special Committee headed by Senator Frank Church published its report on plans to assassinate foreign leaders.
• minister: What would Syria have stood to gain from assassinating a former prime minister?
• king: I'm letting you, Roth; my baby brother put himself in danger by trying to assassinate the king!
• official: Top Iraq official shot dead [ 08/05/05 09:57 ] Gunmen have assassinated a senior transport ministry official in Baghdad.

Subject

• gunman: Would the result of the election have been the same had he not been assassinated by a lone gunman?
• member: Sergei Kirov was assassinated by a young party member, Leonid Nikolayev, on 1st December, 1934.
• agent: He was assassinated by a police agent in Kiev in 1911.

Adjective complement

former: Ten years ago, it was implicated in a plot to assassinate former President Bush during his visit to Kuwait.

Modifying Another Word

• recently: The " Veiled Prophet " Aswad had been recently assassinated by conspirators in the interest of Mohammad 1.
• not: They did not assassinate any opponent for any reason whatsoever, even for composing insult poetry.
• probably: On second thought, to be on the safe side, they'll probably assassinate all the S.A.R. generals.
• eventually: He was eventually assassinated by a Hindu extremist in 1948.
• even: They want to get rid of Chavez by any means possible, even assassinating him if necessary.

Preposition: in

street: Over that period of time 350 Iraqi scientists and 200 university professors have been assassinated in Iraqi streets when they were away from home.

Preposition: by

• gunman: Would the result of the election have been the same had he not been assassinated by a lone gunman?
• member: Sergei Kirov was assassinated by a young party member, Leonid Nikolayev, on 1st December, 1934.
• agent: He was assassinated by a police agent in Kiev in 1911.