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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Suicide :: Suicide (adv.) One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.
Bloodguilty :: Bloodguilty (a.) Guilty of murder or bloodshed.
Assassinate :: Assassinate (v. t.) To assail with murderous intent; hence, by extended meaning, to maltreat exceedingly..
Parricide :: Parricide (n.) The act or crime of murdering one's own father or any ancestor.
Death :: Death (v. i.) Murder; murderous character.
Murderer :: Murderer (n.) A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece..
Filicide :: Filicide (n.) The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder..
Vendetta :: Vendetta (n.) A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.
Murder :: Murder (n.) To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n..
Onslaught :: Onslaught (n.) An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault..
Sororicide :: Sororicide (n.) The murder of one's sister; also, one who murders or kills one's own sister..
Bloodsucker :: Bloodsucker (n.) One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer..
Aforethought :: Aforethought (a.) Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder..
Regicide :: Regicide (n.) The killing or the murder of a king.
Regicide :: Regicide (n.) One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng.Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death..
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..
Self-destruction :: Self-destruction (n.) The destruction of one's self; self-murder; suicide.
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..
Murdered :: Murdered (imp. & p. p.) of Murde.
Fratricide :: Fratricide (n.) The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.
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