murder

Meaning of murder

noun
  1. The crime of deliberately killing another person without justification.
    The defendant was charged with murder.
  2. 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.
  3. (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.
  4. (used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.
    This headache is murder.
  5. (collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
verb
  1. 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.
  2. To defeat decisively.
    Our team is going to murder them.
  3. 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!
  4. To botch or mangle.
  5. 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:

slaying, execution

Meaning slay:

slay, hit, dispatch, off, remove

Meaning mangle:

mangle, mutilate

Meaning :

assassination, homicide, manslaughter, flock, thrash, trounce, assassinate, kill, massacre, slaughter

Translation of murder

Words that rhyme with murder

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