Object

• 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.

• king: I'm letting you, Roth; my baby brother put himself in danger by trying to assassinate the king!

Adjective complement

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

Subject

• 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.

Modifying Another Word

• 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.

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.