Definition of murder

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Murder (n.) The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide..

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Blood :: Blood (n.) A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition.
Assassin :: Assassin (n.) One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense..
Bloodguilty :: Bloodguilty (a.) Guilty of murder or bloodshed.
Fratricide :: Fratricide (n.) One who murders or kills his own brother.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter..
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..
Regicide :: Regicide (n.) One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng.Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death..
Vaticide :: Vaticide (n.) The murder, or the murderer, of a prophet..
Starve :: Starve (v. t.) To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder..
Matricide :: Matricide (n.) One who murders one's own mother.
Murdering :: Murdering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Murde.
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..
Self-murderer :: Self-murderer (n.) A suicide.
Homicidal :: Homicidal (a.) Pertaining to homicide; tending to homicide; murderous.
Slaughterous :: Slaughterous (a.) Destructive; murderous.
Suicide :: Suicide (adv.) One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.
Willful :: Willful (a.) Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful 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..
Massacre :: Massacre (n.) Murder.
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