murder

Speech parts

1. murder - Noun

2. murder - Verb

3. Murder - Proper noun

Meaning

The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.

To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.

To destroy; to put an end to.

To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

slay hit execution assassination massacre slaughter assassinate homicide slaying manslaughter butchery kill remove killing dispatch
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Antonyms

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Hypernyms

warp kill distort homicide falsify garble

Hyponyms

burke gore butchery hit assassination execute

Phrases with the word

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Derivatives

murdered murdering

Anagrams

redrum

Examples

To destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.' John Chrysostom

A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed is not admissible amongst us. Basil of Caesarea

Fascism is capitalism plus murder. Upton Sinclair

One can forgive a murder but not impoliteness. Chinese Proverb

Never murder a man who is about to commit suicide. German Proverb

Murder will out. English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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