murder in English dictionary

  • murder

    Meanings and definitions of "murder"

    • (countable) An act of deliberate killing of another human being.
    • (uncountable) (law) The crime of deliberate killing.
    • (uncountable) (When used as a predicative noun) : Something terrible to endure.
    • (countable) The collective noun for crows
    • To deliberately kill (a person or persons).
    • (transitive) (sports, figuratively, colloquial) To defeat decisively.
    • To botch or mangle
    • (figuratively, colloquial) To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
    • (figuratively, colloquial, UK) to devour, ravish.
    • noun
      (countable)
      An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.
    • noun
      (uncountable)
      The crime of deliberate killing of another human.
    • noun
      (uncountable, law, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule)
      The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.
    • noun
      (uncountable, used as a predicative noun)
      Something terrible to endure.
    • noun
      (countable, collective)
      A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
    • verb
      To deliberately kill (a person or persons).
    • verb
      (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial)
      To defeat decisively.
    • verb
      To botch or mangle.
    • verb
      (figuratively, colloquial)
      To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
    • verb
      (figuratively, colloquial, Britain)
      to devour, ravish.
    • To purposely end the life of another human being.
    • To deliberately and purposely end the life of a political, public or other significant figure, usually publically.
    • an act of deliberate killing
    • the crime of deliberate killing
    • terrible to endure
    • flock of crows
    • deliberately kill
    • defeat decisively
    • express one’s anger at
    • devour
    • The intentional or premeditated killing of another person.
    • (to) murder
    • (the crime of) murder
    • To unlawfully and intentionally kill another human being.
    • 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"

    Synonyms of "murder" in English dictionary

    remove, bump off, falsify are the top synonyms of "murder" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of murder

    • murder ( third-person singular simple present murders, present participle murdering, simple past and past participle murdered)
    • murder ( plural  murders)
    • lp  liczba pojedyncza murder, lm  liczba mnoga murders murder, murdered, murdered, murders, murdering
    • murder (countable and uncountable, plural murders)
    • murder (third-person singular simple present murders, present participle murdering, simple past and past participle murdered)
  • Murder

    Meanings and definitions of "murder"

    • Murder, She Said
    • Murder, She Wrote

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