The phrase "assigned to kill" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts involving missions, contracts, or tasks that involve lethal intent, often in fictional or dramatic narratives.
Example: "The secret agent was assigned to kill the target before he could reveal classified information."
Alternatives: "tasked with eliminating" or "designated to assassinate".
Salmon, assigned to kill Roark, was less resistant.
When the hit man assigned to kill Mucio shows up, Mucio tries to bargain with him.
The freshman year of high school I was assigned To Kill a Mockingbird.
A young assassin named Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski, the "James Dean of Poland") is assigned to kill a Communist official.
Willis Cohen, age fifteen, just five feet six and a hundred and thirty pounds, was gumming up the works for a team of seniors assigned to kill him.
It seems only fitting that Bay Minette, Ala., was assigned "To Kill a Mockingbird," and Long Island residents, "The Great Gatsby".
At that time, I was already interested in politics and history — especially American politics and history — and although I'd been assigned to read "To Kill a Mockingbird," I was also reading, concurrently, William Bradford Huie's "Three Lives for Mississippi," John Howard Griffin's "Black Like Me" and Gary Thomas Howe's "My Undercover Years With the Ku Klux Klan".
In his previous job as commander of the Joint Special Operations Command, General McChrystal oversaw units assigned to capture or kill senior militants.
When The Associated Press began investigating whether the Army unit he was assigned to -- the Seventh Cavalry Regiment -- killed hundreds of South Koreans nearly 50 years ago, Mr. Daily, who is 69, seemed an ideal authority on difficult terrain.
Terrier is assigned to take a kill shot of a key political leader that causes even more chaos in the country and sends him on the run, leaving Annie to Felix.
Gen. Jerry Brown joined with Riverside County officials Thursday in asking the public to help find those who tried at least three times to kill officers assigned to a Hemet-based gang task force.
