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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Execution :: Execution (n.) A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer..
Sanguinary :: Sanguinary (a.) Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest, or battle..
Onslaught :: Onslaught (n.) An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault..
Murder :: Murder (n.) To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English..
Murderment :: Murderment (n.) Murder.
Ruffian :: Ruffian (n.) A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat..
Flesh :: Flesh (v. t.) To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time..
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..
Slayer :: Slayer (n.) One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life.
Bloodthirsty :: Bloodthirsty (a.) Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous.
Thug :: Thug (n.) One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government..
Matricide :: Matricide (n.) The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.
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..
Suicide :: Suicide (adv.) One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.
Regicide :: Regicide (n.) The killing or the murder of a king.
Patricide :: Patricide (n.) The crime of one who murders his father. Same as Parricide.
Assassinate :: Assassinate (n.) An assassination, murder, or murderous assault..
Eric :: Eric (n.) A recompense formerly given by a murderer to the relatives of the murdered person.
Murdering :: Murdering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Murde.
Starve :: Starve (v. t.) To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder..
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