MURDER

murder, slaying, execution

(noun) unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being

mangle, mutilate, murder

(verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable; “The tourists murdered the French language”

murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove

(verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation; “The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

murder (countable and uncountable, plural murders)

(uncountable) The crime of deliberately killing another person without justification.

(countable) The act of deliberate killing of another person or other being without justification, especially with malice aforethought.

(uncountable, legal, 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.

(uncountable, used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.

(countable, collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to “murder”: atrocious, attempted, brutal, cold-blooded, double, heinous, horrible, premeditated, triple, terrible, unsolved.

Synonyms

• (act of deliberate killing): homicide, manslaughter, assassination

• (group of crows): flock

Verb

murder (third-person singular simple present murders, present participle murdering, simple past and past participle murdered)

To deliberately kill (a person or persons) without justification, especially with malice aforethought.

(transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To defeat decisively.

(figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).

To botch or mangle.

(figuratively, colloquial, British) To devour, ravish.

Synonyms

• (deliberately kill): assassinate, kill, massacre, slaughter

• (defeat decisively): thrash, trounce, wipe the floor with

• (express one’s anger at): kill

Anagrams

• murred, redrum

Source: Wiktionary

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Mur"der, n. Etym: [OE. morder, morther, AS. moredhor, fr. moredh murder; akin to D. moord, OS. moredh, G., Dan., & Sw. mord, Icel. moredh, Goth. maúrþr, OSlav. mreti to die, Lith. mirti, W. marw dead, L. mors, mortis, death, mori, moriri, to die, Gr. broto`s (for mroto`s) mortal, 'a`mbrotos immortal, Skr. mrs to die, mrsta death. *105. Cf. Amaranth, Ambrosia, Mortal.]

Definition: The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide. "Mordre will out." Chaucer. The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt of murder, as the offering them to idols had the guilt of idolatry. Locke. Slaughter grows murder when it goes too far. Dryden.

Note: Murder in the second degree, in most jurisdictions, is a malicious homicide committed without a specific intention to take life. Wharton.

Mur"der, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Murdered; p. pr. & vb. n. Murdering.] Etym: [OE. mortheren, murtheren, AS. myr; akin to OHG. murdiren, Goth. maúr. See Murder, n.]

1. To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.

2. To destroy; to put an end to. [Canst thou] murder thy breath in middle of a word Shak.

3. To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.

Syn.

– To kill; assassinate; slay. See Kill.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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