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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Bloodshed :: Bloodshed (n.) The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder..
Ruffian :: Ruffian (n.) A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat..
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..
Cutthroat :: Cutthroat (a.) Murderous; cruel; barbarous.
Taking-off :: Taking-off (n.) Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take, v. t..
Uxoricide :: Uxoricide (n.) One who murders his wife.
Starve :: Starve (v. t.) To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder..
Horrible :: Horrible (a.) Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder..
Sororicide :: Sororicide (n.) The murder of one's sister; also, one who murders or kills one's own sister..
Uxoricide :: Uxoricide (n.) The murder of a wife by her husband.
Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To put to death by suspending by the neck; -- a form of capital punishment; as, to hang a murderer..
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..
Murderer :: Murderer (n.) A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece..
Murdered :: Murdered (imp. & p. p.) of Murde.
Gory :: Gory (a.) Bloody; murderous.
Blood :: Blood (n.) The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction..
Murderess :: Murderess (n.) A woman who commits murder.
Bloodsucker :: Bloodsucker (n.) One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer..
Bloodshedder :: Bloodshedder (n.) One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
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..
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