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Synonyms for murder
ˈmɜr dərmur·der
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Wiktionary
murderverb
To deliberately kill (a person or persons).
There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone.
Synonyms:
assassinate, manslaughter, assassination, massacre, kill, slaughtermurderverb
To defeat decisively.
Our team is going to murder them.
Synonyms:
wipe the floor with, thrash, trouncemurdernoun
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:
killmurderverb
to devour, ravish.
I could murder a hamburger right now.
Synonyms:
flock
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, slayPreposition:
To kill with or by sword, famine, pestilence, care, grief, etc.; killed for his money, by a robber, with a dagger.
Princeton's WordNet
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 executionmurder, 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, removemangle, 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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Dictionary of English Synonymes
murdernoun
Synonyms:
homicide (with malice), slaughter, massacre, ASSASSINATION, butchery, MANSLAUGHTERmurderverb
Synonyms:
kill (with malice), slay, ASSASSINATE, despatch, put to death
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
murdernoun
Synonyms:
homicide
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "murder":
assassination, killing, homicide, murders, killed, manslaughter, kill, assassinate, killings, slaying, murderer, death, crime, shooting
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#132 | make | |
#225 | off | |
#246 | take | |
#522 | complete | |
#557 | performance | |
#772 | mar | |
#967 | death | |
#1158 | score | |
#1337 | transfer | |
#1551 | hit | |
#1651 | remove | |
#1754 | implementation | |
#2010 | crime | |
#2254 | reach | |
#2491 | gain | |
#2674 | finish | |
#3096 | kill | |
#3281 | killed | |
#3458 | execution | |
#3884 | strike | |
#4553 | murder | |
#4589 | shooting | |
#5175 | shoot | |
#5377 | killing | |
#5685 | discharge | |
#6793 | absent | |
#6859 | execute | |
#8911 | dispatch | |
#10524 | withdraw | |
#12138 | executing | |
#14083 | slaughter | |
#14782 | attain | |
#14956 | massacre | |
#15058 | flock | |
#16340 | butcher | |
#16974 | assassination | |
#17099 | murders | |
#18615 | tally | |
#19018 | homicide | |
#20275 | pip | |
#21870 | killings | |
#22902 | murderer | |
#23314 | despatch | |
#24734 | stumble | |
#27901 | thrash | |
#32348 | slay | |
#34404 | manslaughter | |
#39894 | slaying | |
#41965 | maul | |
#52244 | assassinate | |
#71334 | mangle | |
#102812 | mutilate | |
#144808 | trounce |
How to use murder in a sentence?
Yesterday the Saudi foreign minister chose to lecture me on television about the Jamal Khashoggi murder, he said my opinion was based on emotion and speculation and that we should presume innocence for the crown prince. My response to him is that it takes a lot of damn gall for Saudi Arabia, with a dictatorship with 3,000 political prisoners held without trial, to lecture the US on the presumption of innocence.
This is the kind of case that can shake the public’s confidence in the system, an experienced investigator used his specialized knowledge to prevent his own colleagues from apprehending a murder suspect.
The judge read the murder case reports and asked for confessions from the soldiers, who admitted they were responsible.
My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.
The culture of impunity in Malta ... fosters corruption, organized financial criminality and state capture, and it was that culture that created the conditions for the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.
Translations for murder
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- moordAfrikaans
- قتل, قَتْل, اِغْتِيَالArabic
- öldürmək, cinayətAzerbaijani
- забо́йстваBelarusian
- уби́йствоBulgarian
- assassinat, assassinarCatalan, Valencian
- vražda, porod, zabít, sprovodit ze světa, zavraždit, zničit, hejnoCzech
- lladd, llofruddio, llofruddiaethWelsh
- smadre, myrde, mord, slå ihjel, kvæleDanish
- mörderisch, ermorden, umbringen, MordGerman
- φονεύω, ανθρωποκτονία, δολοφονία, φόνος, δολοφονώ, σκοτώνωGreek
- murdoEsperanto
- asesinato, asesinar, devorarSpanish
- mõrv, roim, mõrvama, roimama, tapmaEstonian
- قتلPersian
- murha, murhata, parvi, murhaavaFinnish
- meurtre, homicideFrench
- mort, murtScottish Gaelic
- רֶצַח, רצח, הביס, הביע כעס, זעם, טרף, סיוט, להקת עורביםHebrew
- हत्याHindi
- gyilkosság, meggyilkolHungarian
- սպանություն, սպանելArmenian
- pembunuhanIndonesian
- morð, myrða, rústaIcelandic
- massacrare, omicidio, assassinio, assassinare, delitto, distruggereItalian
- 殺人, 殺す, 殺害するJapanese
- მკვლელობაGeorgian
- សម្លាប់Khmer
- 살인, 殺人, 살인죄Korean
- адам өлтүрүүKyrgyz
- occidereLatin
- ຄາດຕະກຳLao
- žmogžudystė, nužudymas, užmuštiLithuanian
- slepkavība, noslepkavot, slepkavotLatvian
- убиствоMacedonian
- കൊലപാതകം, കൊല, ഹത്യMalayalam
- pembunuhanMalay
- လူသတ်မှုBurmese
- moord, de grond in boren, vermoorden, moordenDutch
- overlagt, ta knekken på, drepe, mord, myrde, drapNorwegian
- morderstwo, zabójstwo, zamordować, zabićPolish
- homicídio, tortura, detonar, assassinato, devorar, massacrar, destroçar, assassínio, assassinar, destruir, acabar comPortuguese
- crimă, asasinatRomanian
- убива́ть, уби́йство, уби́ть, разгроми́тьRussian
- убоство, ubistvo, уморство, ùbiti, umórstvo, убити, vrane, zgromiti, умо̀рити, ùbōjstvo, umòriti, убиство, убојствоSerbo-Croatian
- vražda, zavraždiť, vraždiťSlovak
- umor, umoritiSlovene
- mord, sluka, mörda, dödaSwedish
- హత్యTelugu
- куштор, қатл, одамкушӣTajik
- ฆาตกรรมThai
- adam öldürme, cinayet, öldürmek, katletmekTurkish
- вби́вствоUkrainian
- tàn sát, giết người, vụ giết người, ám sát, vụ ám sát, giếtVietnamese
- מאָרדYiddish
- ìpànìyànYoruba
- 謀殺Chinese
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