attempt
She has survived three assassination attempts since she became her country's prime minister.
The special forces botched an assassination attempt on the rebel leader.
The president survived an assassination attempt when a car tried to crash into his motorcade.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Murder & attempted murder
asphyxiation
assassinate
assassination
attempt
bloodstained
butcher
dispatch
drive-by
genocide
gun someone down
homicide
infanticide
knock
pop off
put someone to the swordidiom
regicide
rub
rub something out
slaughter
throttle