Definition of murder

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

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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..
Infanticide :: Infanticide (n.) The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder.
Homicidal :: Homicidal (a.) Pertaining to homicide; tending to homicide; murderous.
Stabber :: Stabber (n.) One who, or that which, stabs; a privy murderer..
Self-murderer :: Self-murderer (n.) A suicide.
Regicide :: Regicide (n.) One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng.Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death..
Death :: Death (v. i.) Murder; murderous character.
Vaticide :: Vaticide (n.) The murder, or the murderer, of a prophet..
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..
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..
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..
Cutthroat :: Cutthroat (n.) One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
Parricide :: Parricide (n.) The act or crime of murdering one's own father or any ancestor.
Slaughterous :: Slaughterous (a.) Destructive; 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..
Murder :: Murder (n.) To destroy; to put an end to.
Patricide :: Patricide (n.) The murderer of his father.
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..
Quell :: Quell (n.) Murder.
Bloodguilty :: Bloodguilty (a.) Guilty of murder or bloodshed.
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