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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Murder :: Murder (n.) To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n..
Murder :: Murder (n.) The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide..
Sanguinary :: Sanguinary (a.) Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest, or battle..
Regicide :: Regicide (n.) The killing or the murder of a king.
Uxoricide :: Uxoricide (n.) One who murders his wife.
Assassin :: Assassin (n.) One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense..
Suicide :: Suicide (adv.) One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.
Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To put to death by suspending by the neck; -- a form of capital punishment; as, to hang a murderer..
Bloodshedder :: Bloodshedder (n.) One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
Patricide :: Patricide (n.) The crime of one who murders his father. Same as Parricide.
Sororicide :: Sororicide (n.) The murder of one's sister; also, one who murders or kills one's own sister..
Massacre :: Massacre (n.) Murder.
Horrible :: Horrible (a.) Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder..
Infanticide :: Infanticide (n.) The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder.
Uxoricide :: Uxoricide (n.) The murder of a wife by her husband.
Eric :: Eric (n.) A recompense formerly given by a murderer to the relatives of the murdered person.
Cannibalism :: Cannibalism (n.) The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity.
Starve :: Starve (v. t.) To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder..
Fratricide :: Fratricide (n.) The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.
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..
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