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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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..
Vendetta :: Vendetta (n.) A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.
Cutthroat :: Cutthroat (n.) One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
Murder :: Murder (n.) To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n..
Eric :: Eric (n.) A recompense formerly given by a murderer to the relatives of the murdered person.
Bloodshedder :: Bloodshedder (n.) One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
Murderment :: Murderment (n.) Murder.
Tyrannicidal :: Tyrannicidal (a.) Of or pertaining to tyrannicide, or the murder of a tyrant..
Infanticidal :: Infanticidal (a.) Of or pertaining to infanticide; engaged in, or guilty of, child murder..
Slaughterous :: Slaughterous (a.) Destructive; murderous.
Ruffian :: Ruffian (a.) brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous; as, ruffian rage..
Fratricide :: Fratricide (n.) One who murders or kills his own brother.
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..
Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner..
Murdering :: Murdering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Murde.
Assassinate :: Assassinate (v. t.) To assail with murderous intent; hence, by extended meaning, to maltreat exceedingly..
Matricide :: Matricide (n.) The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.
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..
Willful :: Willful (a.) Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful murder..
Cutthroat :: Cutthroat (a.) Murderous; cruel; barbarous.
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