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Assassinate :: Assassinate (v. t.) To assail with murderous intent; hence, by extended meaning, to maltreat exceedingly..

Ruffian :: Ruffian (n.) A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat..

Fratricide :: Fratricide (n.) The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.

Assassinate :: Assassinate (n.) An assassination, murder, or murderous assault..

Self-destruction :: Self-destruction (n.) The destruction of one's self; self-murder; suicide.

Homicidal :: Homicidal (a.) Pertaining to homicide; tending to homicide; murderous.

Assassinous :: Assassinous (a.) Murderous.

Uxoricide :: Uxoricide (n.) One who murders his wife.

Burke :: Burke (v. t.) To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection..

Bluebeard :: Bluebeard (n.) The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate..

Suicide :: Suicide (adv.) One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.

Sanguinary :: Sanguinary (a.) Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest, or battle..

Cannibalism :: Cannibalism (n.) The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity.

Tyrannicidal :: Tyrannicidal (a.) Of or pertaining to tyrannicide, or the murder of a tyrant..

Execution :: Execution (n.) A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer..

Butchery :: Butchery (n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter..

Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life..

Matricide :: Matricide (n.) The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.

Murderess :: Murderess (n.) A woman who commits murder.

Taking-off :: Taking-off (n.) Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take, v. t..

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