HOMICIDE

homicide

(noun) the killing of a human being by another human being

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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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

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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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