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HOMICIDE
homicide
(noun) the killing of a human being by another human being
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
homicide (countable and uncountable, plural homicides)
(countable, uncountable, crime) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
(countable) A person who kills another.
(countable, US, police jargon) A victim of homicide; a person who has been unlawfully killed by someone else.
Synonyms
• (unlawful killing of a person by another): assassination (intentional), killing, first-degree murder (US; intentional), manslaughter (unintentional), murder (intentional), second-degree murder (US; unintentional)
• (person who unlawfully kills another person): assassin, killer, man-slayer, murderer
• (victim of homicide): murder victim
Source: Wiktionary
Hom"i*cide, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. homicidium, fr. homicida a man slayer; homo man + caedere to cut, kill. See Homage, and cf. Concise, Shed, v. t.]
1. The killing of one human being by another.
Note: Homicide is of three kinds: justifiable, as when the killing is performed in the exercise of a right or performance of a duty; excusable, as when done, although not as duty or right, yet without culpable or criminal intent; and felonious, or involving what the law terms malice; the latter may be either manslaughter or murder. Bouvier.
2. One who kills another; a manslayer. Chaucer. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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