murder

[mur·der]

To murder is to kill, and it's illegal. Murder is one of the worst crimes of all.

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

Noun
unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being

Verb
alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language"

Verb
kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"

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

n.
To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.

n.
To destroy; to put an end to.

n.
To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.

Murder

Mur"der , n. [OE. morder, morther, AS. mor&edh;or, fr. mor&edh; murder; akin to D. moord, OS. mor&edh;, G., Dan., & Sw. mord, Icel. mor&edh;, Goth. ma'a3rþr, OSlav. mr'c7ti to die, Lith. mirti, W. marw dead, L. mors, mortis, death, mori, moriri, to die, Gr. broto`s (for mroto`s) mortal, 'a`mbrotos immortal, Skr. m&rsdot; to die, m&rsdot;ta death. 'fb105. Cf. Amaranth, Ambrosia, Mortal.] The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide. "Mordre will out." Chaucer.

The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt of murder, as the offering them to idols had the guilt of idolatry.

Slaughter grows murder when it goes too far.

&hand; Murder in the second degree, in most jurisdictions, is a malicious homicide committed without a specific intention to take life. Wharton.

Murder

Mur"der, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Murdered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Murdering.] [OE. mortheren, murtheren, AS. myrrian; akin to OHG. murdiren, Goth. ma'a3rrjan. See Murder, n.] 1. To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n. 2. To destroy; to put an end to.

[Canst thou] murder thy breath in middle of a word?

3. To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English. Syn. -- To kill; assassinate; slay. See Kill.

Murderer

Mur"der*er , n. 1. One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice. 2. A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece. [Obs.]

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

To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.

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Usage Examples

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries.

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.

Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats.

One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors know each other and cling to each other for safety and support, and it's really a completely different vibe than the men experience out here, where they're all trying to murder each other.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

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Other Usage Examples

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.