murder(n = noun.act) execution, slaying - unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being;
is a kind of homicide
has particulars: assassination, bloodshed, gore, contract killing, parricide, mariticide, fratricide, uxoricide, filicide, elimination, liquidation, butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter, lynching, regicide, dry-gulching, hit, infanticide, shoot-down, tyrannicide, thuggee
Derived forms verb murder1, adjective murderous1
1. murder(v = verb.social) bump off, dispatch, hit, off, polish off, remove, slay - kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
is one way to kill
Derived forms noun murder1, noun murderer1
Sample sentences:
They want to murder the prisoners
2. murder(v = verb.change) mangle, mutilate - alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language"
is one way to distort, falsify, garble, warp
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
" Murder in the second degree, in most jurisdictions, is a malicious homicide committed without a specific intention to take life." Wharton. [1913 Webster]
"The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt of murder, as the offering them to idols had the guilt of idolatry." [1913 Webster]
"Slaughter grows murder when it goes too far." [1913 Webster]
1. To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder,
2. To destroy; to put an end to. [1913 Webster]
"[Canst thou] murder thy breath in middle of a word?" [1913 Webster]
3. To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English. [1913 Webster]
murder, n. & v.
--n.
1 the unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by another (cf. MANSLAUGHTER).
2 colloq. an unpleasant, troublesome, or dangerous state of affairs (it was murder here on Saturday).
--v.tr.
1 kill (a human being) unlawfully, esp. wickedly or inhumanly.
2 Law kill (a human being) with a premeditated motive.
3 colloq. utterly defeat or spoil by a bad performance, mispronunciation etc. (murdered the soliloquy in the second act).
Idiom:
cry blue murder sl. make an extravagant outcry. get away with murder colloq. do whatever one wishes and escape punishment. murder will out murder cannot remain undetected.
Derivative:
murderer n. murderess n.
Etymology:
OE morthor & OF murdre f. Gmc
N killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion, effusion of blood, blood, blood shed, gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery, battue, massacre, fusillade, noyade, thuggery, Thuggism, deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus, execution, judicial murder, martyrdom, butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur, guet-a-pens, gallows, executioner, man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder, regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide, suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath, immolation, auto da fe, holocaust, suffocation, strangulation, garrote, hanging, lapidation, deadly weapon, Aceldama, slaughtering, phthisozoics, sport, sporting, the chase, venery, hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing, pig- sticking, sportsman, huntsman, fisherman, hunter, Nimrod, slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir, fatal accident, violent death, casualty, killing, murderous, slaughterous, sanguinary, sanguinolent, blood stained, blood thirsty, homicidal, red handed, bloody, bloody minded, ensanguined, gory, thuggish, mortal, fatal, lethal, dead, deadly, mortiferous, lethiferous, unhealthy internecine, suicidal, sporting, piscatorial, piscatory, in at the death, assassination has never changed the history of the.
VB kill, put to death, slay, shed blood, murder, assassinate, butcher, slaughter, victimize, immolate, massacre, take away life, deprive of life, make away with, put an end to, despatch, dispatch, burke, settle, do for, strangle, garrote, hang, throttle, choke, stifle, suffocate, stop the breath, smother, asphyxiate, drown, saber, cut down, cut to pieces, cut the throat, jugulate, stab, run through the body, bayonet, eviscerate, put to the sword, put to the edge of the sword, shoot dead, blow one's brains out, brain, knock on the head, stone, lapidate, give a deathblow, deal a deathblow, give a quietus, give a coupe de grace, behead, bowstring, electrocute, gas, hunt, shoot, cut off, nip in the bud, launch into eternity, send to one's last account, sign one's death warrant, strike the death knell of, give no quarter, pour out blood like water, decimate, run amuck, wade knee deep in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood, die a violent death, welter in one's blood, dash out one's brains, blow out one's brains, commit suicide, kill oneself, make away with oneself, put an end to oneself, put an end to it all.
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