Antonyms for Murder
ˈmɜr dərmur·der

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.8 / 4 votes

1. murderverb

   To deliberately kill (a person or persons).

   There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone.

   Synonyms:
   assassinate, manslaughter, assassination, massacre, kill, slaughter

2. murderverb

   To defeat decisively.

   Our team is going to murder them.

   Synonyms:
   wipe the floor with, thrash, trounce

3. murdernoun

   To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).

   He's torn my best shirt. When I see him, I'll murder him!

   Synonyms:
   kill

4. murderverb

   to devour, ravish.

   I could murder a hamburger right now.

   Synonyms:
   flock

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. murder

   To kill is simply to deprive of life, human, animal, or vegetable, with no suggestion of how or why. Assassinate, execute, murder, apply only to the taking of human life; to murder is to kill with premeditation and malicious intent; to execute is to kill in fulfilment of a legal sentence; to assassinate is to kill by assault; this word is chiefly applied to the killing of public or eminent persons through alleged political motives, whether secretly or openly. To slay is to kill by a blow, or by a weapon. Butcher and slaughter apply primarily to the killing of cattle; massacre is applied primarily and almost exclusively to human beings, signifying to kill them indiscriminately in large numbers; to massacre is said when there is no chance of successful resistance; to butcher when the killing is especially brutal; soldiers mown down in a hopeless charge are said to be slaughtered when no brutality on the enemy's part is implied. To despatch is to kill swiftly and in general quietly, always with intention, with or without right.

   Synonyms:
   assassinate, butcher, despatch, execute, kill, massacre, put to death, slaughter, slay

   Preposition:
   To kill with or by sword, famine, pestilence, care, grief, etc.; killed for his money, by a robber, with a dagger.

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. murder, slaying, executionverb

   unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being

   Synonyms:
   slaying, performance, carrying into action, death penalty, implementation, execution, instruction execution, capital punishment, execution of instrument, executing, carrying out, murder, writ of execution

2. murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, removeverb

   kill intentionally and with premeditation

   "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"

   Synonyms:
   shoot, dispatch, despatch, complete, wrap up, hit, arrive at, transfer, attain, send off, finish up, reach, eat up, take out, move out, get rid of, strike, score, finish, make, polish off, collide with, gain, mangle, withdraw, tally, off, finish off, absent, run into, stumble, slay, impinge on, clear up, murder, rack up, mutilate, mop up, discharge, come to, take away, take, pip, get through, bump off, remove

3. mangle, mutilate, murderverb

   alter so as to make unrecognizable

   "The tourists murdered the French language"

   Synonyms:
   polish off, maul, slay, cut up, dispatch, mar, off, mutilate, remove, hit, bump off, murder, mangle

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. murdernoun

   Synonyms:
   homicide

How to use Murder in a sentence?

1. Mayor Catherine Pugh:

   Murder is out of control, there are too many guns on the streets. We're looking for all the help we can get.

2. Theresa May:

   This attempted murder using a weapons-grade nerve agent in a British town was not just a crime against the Skripals, it was an indiscriminate and reckless act against the United Kingdom, putting the lives of innocent civilians at risk.

3. George Orwell:

   Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

4. John Fetterman:

   He's spent his campaign lying about my record on crime, i'm a Democrat that I am running on my record on crime. You know, I ran for mayor of my community out in Western Pennsylvania to confront gun violence. It's always been a very deep, personal issue for me. … Working with the police, funding the police, and working with the community, we created the kind of relationship that was successful that we went more than five and a half years without any murder loss in my community — never done before or since during my time as mayor before I became lieutenant governor.

5. Douglas Gladden:

   This is a murder case, not a criminal trespass case. When Amber Guyger shot Allison Jean, Amber Guyger didn't take someone else's property. Amber Guyger took the life of a human being.

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