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Type Words
Synonyms bump off, dispatch, hit, off, polish off, remove, slay
Type of kill
Has types burke, execute
Derivation murderer


The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered.
Type Words
Synonyms mangle, mutilate
Type of warp, distort, falsify, garble


The tourists murdered the French language.
Type Words
Synonyms execution, slaying
Type of homicide
Has types fratricide, gore, hit, infanticide, liquidation, lynching, mariticide, assassination, massacre, parricide, regicide, shoot-down, slaughter, thuggee, tyrannicide, uxoricide, mass murder, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, contract killing, dry-gulching, elimination, filicide
Derivation murderous

Examples of murder

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Some cited the 2008 murder of Salvadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero in Patchogue.
From the newsday.com
Prosecutors also filed a second-degree murder charge as a backup, Driscoll said.
From the thenewstribune.com
Morgan previously was convicted of attempted murder as a co-defendant to Parker.
From the thenewstribune.com
A jury found Guandique guilty of first-degree murder during a trial in November.
From the sacbee.com
His first mainstream hit, the murder drama Heavenly Creatures, came out in 1994.
From the forbes.com
Maybe Gaza should stop trying to murder the Jews and tend to their own cesspool.
From the washingtontimes.com
The murder shocked customers and business owners, who turned out at the funeral.
From the stltoday.com
The killer spent $50,000 he received in the murder-for-hire scheme on OxyContin.
From the dispatch.com
Michael Joseph Anderson has been charged with murder in connection with killing.
From the charlotteobserver.com
More examples
  • Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
  • Kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
  • Mangle: alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language"
  • (murdered) killed unlawfully; "the murdered woman"; "lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier"
  • (murderous) homicidal: characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being ; "a homicidal rage"; "murderous thugs"
  • Murder, as defined in common law countries, is the unlawful killing of another human being with "malice aforethought", and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide (such as manslaughter). ...
  • Murder! (1930) is a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel and play called Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. The film stars Herbert Marshall and Norah Baring. It was Hitchcock's third all-talkie film, after Juno and the Paycock and Blackmail.
  • Bittersweet World is the third studio album by singer Ashlee Simpson. It was released in the United States on April 22, 2008.Jonathan Cohen, , Billboard.com, March 17, 2008. Simpson worked on the album with producers Timbaland, Chad Hugo, and Kenna., Geffen press release (PRNewswire. ...
  • Murder is defined in the New South Wales (NSW) Crimes Act 1900 as follows: Under NSW law, the maximum penalty for murder is life imprisonment with a standard non-parole period of 20 years, or 25 years for the murder of a child under the age of 18 or of a police officer or public official. ...