Definition of murder

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Murder (n.) To destroy; to put an end to.

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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..
Bloodshedder :: Bloodshedder (n.) One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death..
Murtherer :: Murtherer (n.) A murderer.
Cutthroat :: Cutthroat (n.) One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
Taking-off :: Taking-off (n.) Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take, v. t..
Assassin :: Assassin (n.) One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense..
Fratricide :: Fratricide (n.) One who murders or kills his own brother.
Murderer :: Murderer (n.) A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece..
Bravo :: Bravo (a.) A daring villain; a bandit; one who sets law at defiance; a professional assassin or murderer.
Matricide :: Matricide (n.) The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.
Murderer :: Murderer (n.) One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice..
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..
Murderess :: Murderess (n.) A woman who commits murder.
Bloodthirsty :: Bloodthirsty (a.) Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous.
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..
Gory :: Gory (a.) Bloody; 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..
Carnage :: Carnage (n.) Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc..
Regicide :: Regicide (n.) The killing or the murder of a king.
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