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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Fratricide :: Fratricide (n.) One who murders or kills his own brother.
Taking-off :: Taking-off (n.) Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take, v. t..
Vendetta :: Vendetta (n.) A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.
Carnage :: Carnage (n.) Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc..
Vaticide :: Vaticide (n.) The murder, or the murderer, of a prophet..
Infanticidal :: Infanticidal (a.) Of or pertaining to infanticide; engaged in, or guilty of, child murder..
Bloody :: Bloody (a.) Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel..
Ruffian :: Ruffian (n.) A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat..
Tyrannicidal :: Tyrannicidal (a.) Of or pertaining to tyrannicide, or the murder of a tyrant..
Uckewallist :: Uckewallist (n.) One of a sect of rigid Anabaptists, which originated in 1637, and whose tenets were essentially the same as those of the Mennonists. In addition, however, they held that Judas and the murderers of Christ were saved. So called from the founder of the sect, Ucke Wallis, a native of Friesland..
Assassinous :: Assassinous (a.) Murderous.
Weregild :: Weregild (n.) The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer..
Cutthroat :: Cutthroat (n.) One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To put to death by suspending by the neck; -- a form of capital punishment; as, to hang a murderer..
Sanguinary :: Sanguinary (a.) Attended with much bloodshed; bloody; murderous; as, a sanguinary war, contest, or battle..
Suicism :: Suicidism (n.) The quality or state of being suicidal, or self-murdering..
Bloodguilty :: Bloodguilty (a.) Guilty of murder or bloodshed.
Starve :: Starve (v. t.) To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder..
Blood :: Blood (n.) The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction..
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..
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