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, 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, 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, mangle

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1. murdernoun

   Synonyms:
   homicide

How to use murder in a sentence?

1. Gilberto Valle:

   Valle gave Mangan full custody of their daughter while he was ensnared in the cannibalism fantasy case. Following his exoneration, he filed court papers in Nevada -- where Mangan now lives -- seeking visitation with his daughter. But Valle decided to drop the case last month after a judge told him he must pay his ex-wife’s attorney fees, the Daily News reported late Sunday. Valle admitted to spending $50,000 so far on the legal battle, and said he couldn’t afford any more. I've been completely cleared but that doesn't mean my life is back to normal, this is going to stick with me for the rest of my life. He added: I argued it's in the child's best interest to have a father. Kathleen argued, 'He might murder my daughter.' I don't think she really thinks that. The newspaper said Mangan and her lawyer are not responding to requests for comment. We have great concern that Ms. Mangan will be forced into a co-parenting relationship with a man who will continue to traumatize her through his very public persona as the 'Cannibal Cop,' her attorney had previously written in court papers. Valle, who now reportedly works in construction, recentlypublished his first book.

2. Adam Osmayev:

   The fact the FSB is . trying to somehow implicate me in Nemtsov's murder is utterly ridiculous.

3. Kay Ivey:

   Under Alabama law, someone who helps kill a police officer is just as guilty as the person who directly commits the crime, since 1983, Alabama has executed two individuals for being an accomplice to capital murder.

4. Kamala Harris:

   Do I think that people who commit murder, people who are terrorists, should be deprived of their rights ? Yeah, I do, i'm a prosecutor, I believe that in terms of, there has to be serious consequence for the most extreme types of crimes.

5. Weekend Update:

   Who can forget the time the president tried to murder Congress? apparently Congress can.

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