Murder

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the crime of killing a person with malice aforethought or with recklessness manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.
  • noun. An instance of such killing.
  • noun. Something that is very uncomfortable, difficult, or hazardous.
  • noun. A flock of crows.
  • intransitive verb. To kill (another human) in an act of murder.
  • intransitive verb. To kill brutally or inhumanly.
  • intransitive verb. To put an end to; destroy.
  • intransitive verb. To spoil by ineptness; mutilate.
  • intransitive verb. To defeat decisively; trounce.
  • intransitive verb. To commit murder.
  • idiom. (get away with murder) To escape punishment for or detection of an egregiously blameworthy act.
  • idiom. (murder will out) Secrets or misdeeds will eventually be disclosed.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To kill; slay in or as in battle.
  • To kill (a human being) with premeditated malice; kill criminally. See murder, n., 1.
  • To kill or slaughter in an inhuman or barbarous manner.
  • To destroy; put an end to.
  • To abuse or violate grossly; mar by bad execution, pronunciation, representation, etc.: as, to murder the queen's English; the actor murdered the part he had to play.
  • Synonyms Slay, Despatch, etc. See kill.
  • noun. Homicide with malice aforethought; as legally defined, the unlawful killing of a human being, by a person of sound mind, by an act causing death within a year and a day thereafter, with premeditated malice.
  • noun. Slaughter; destruction.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See murder, n.
  • transitive verb. To destroy; to put an end to.
  • transitive verb. To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle.
  • noun. The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An act of deliberate killing of another human being.
  • noun. The crime of deliberate killing.
  • noun. The commission of any act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a person.
  • noun. Something terrible to endure.
  • noun. A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
  • verb. To deliberately kill (a person or persons).
  • verb. (sports, figuratively, colloquial) To defeat decisively.
  • verb. To botch or mangle
  • verb. To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
  • verb. to devour, ravish.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
  • verb. alter so as to make unrecognizable
  • verb. kill intentionally and with premeditation