Definition of murder

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

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Ungeld :: Ungeld (n.) A person so far out of the protection of the law, that if he were murdered, no geld, or fine, should be paid, or composition made by him that killed him..
Filicide :: Filicide (n.) The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder..
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..
Regicide :: Regicide (n.) The killing or the murder of a king.
Thuggee :: Thuggee (n.) The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs.
Blood Money :: Blood money () Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser..
Fratricide :: Fratricide (n.) One who murders or kills his own brother.
Suicide :: Suicide (adv.) The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind..
Taking-off :: Taking-off (n.) Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take, v. t..
Matricide :: Matricide (n.) One who murders one's own mother.
Bloody :: Bloody (a.) Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel..
Murder :: Murder (n.) To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English..
Bloodshed :: Bloodshed (n.) The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder..
Vaticide :: Vaticide (n.) The murder, or the murderer, of a prophet..
Aforethought :: Aforethought (a.) Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder..
Bloodsucker :: Bloodsucker (n.) One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer..
Suicide :: Suicide (adv.) One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.
Homicidal :: Homicidal (a.) Pertaining to homicide; tending to homicide; murderous.
Cannibalism :: Cannibalism (n.) The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity.
Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death..
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