murder
Meaning of murder
noun
- The crime of deliberately killing another person without justification.
The defendant was charged with murder.
- The act of deliberate killing of another person or other being without justification, especially with malice aforethought.
There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone.
- (in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.
- (used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.
This headache is murder.
- (collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
- To deliberately kill (a person or persons) without justification, especially with malice aforethought.
The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband.
- To defeat decisively.
Our team is going to murder them.
- To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
He's torn my best shirt. When I see him, I'll murder him!
- To botch or mangle.
- To devour, ravish.
I could murder a hamburger right now.
Information about murder
- The plural form of murder is: murders.
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Hyphenation of murder
mur-der
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- murder is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
murder synonyms
Meaning slaying:
Meaning slay:
slay, hit, dispatch, off, remove
Meaning mangle:
Meaning :
assassination, homicide, manslaughter, flock, thrash, trounce, assassinate, kill, massacre, slaughter
Translation of murder
- German: töten, tödten, ermorden, Mord, umbringen, morden, liquidieren
- Italian: uccidere, assassinare, omicidio, assassinio, ammazzare
- Portuguese: assassinar, homicídio
- French: assassiner, meurtre, assassinat, dépêcher
- Spanish: asesinar, asesinato, homicidio, matar, despachar
Words that rhyme with murder
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