murder

  • (noun): The crime of deliberately killing another person without justification.
  • (noun): The act of deliberate killing of another person or other being without justification, especially with malice aforethought.
  • (noun): (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): (used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.
  • (noun): (collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
  • (verb): To deliberately kill (a person or persons) without justification, especially with malice aforethought.
  • (verb): To defeat decisively.
  • (verb): To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
  • (verb): To botch or mangle.
  • (verb): To devour, ravish.
  • The defendant was charged with murder.
  • There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone.
  • This headache is murder.
  • The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband.
  • Our team is going to murder them.