The word 'assassinate' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it when describing the act of deliberately killing someone, usually for political or religious reasons. Example: The president was assassinated by a lone gunman during a public event.
Autocrats in Pyongyang have been strident in their criticism of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's film, which centres on a US plot to assassinate Kim Jong-un and is said to feature a scene in which the face of the "supreme leader" is melted off.
The film, in which Seth Rogen and James Franco are sent to assassinate Kim Jong-un, incurred the wrath of the North Korean authorities and was transformed from an otherwise unremarkable comedy into one of the most talked-about movies of 2014.
All that appeared in the morning papers was a thirty-one word message from the New York correspondent of the official Soviet Tass Agency saying that according to the American papers an attempt to assassinate Trotsky was made on August 20 by an intimate friend and follower.
Valkyrie tells the true story of Von Stauffenberg's attempt to assassinate Hitler with a briefcase bomb towards the end of the second world war.
Hamas said the strike was an attempt to assassinate Deif and said Israel had opened a "gateway to hell".
"They are such terrific fun, and they do such valuable and entertaining work," says Nighy, who is currently filming the thriller Valkyrie - about a wartime plot to assassinate Hitler - with Tom Cruise.
Seventy years later, Zdenka sits beside the window of a mansion block flat overlooking Hyde Park in London; by an extraordinary twist, a plaque on the building identifies it as the location where a plot was hatched by the exiled Czech underground to assassinate the Third Reich's emissary to Prague, Reinhard Heydrich in 1942.
After the Pakistani Taliban attempted to assassinate Malala last October, a young teacher with the Teach for Pakistan programme started reading Malala's diary to her 13-year-old pupils at a government-run secondary school in Karachi.
The actor and director, whose movie centres on a farcical US plot to assassinate the North Korean leader, was reluctant to agree to edits but eventually bowed in the face of extreme corporate pressure.
He was summoned by Mossad head Yitzhak Hofi and told that Mossad's Tehran representative, Eliezar Shafrir, had received a plea to assassinate Khomeini from Shapour Bakhtiar, appointed caretaker prime minister by the Shah to head off growing protests.
In addition to the rift with Syria over Lebanon (and previously with Libya over an alleged attempt to assassinate him), Abdullah could not overcome the animosity of other partners in the Gulf co-operation council.
