Synonyms for murder
ˈmɜr dərmur·der

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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

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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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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 (with malice), slaughter, massacre, ASSASSINATION, butchery, MANSLAUGHTER

2. murderverb

   Synonyms:
   kill (with malice), slay, ASSASSINATE, despatch, put to death

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1. murdernoun

   Synonyms:
   homicide

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1. List of paraphrases for "murder":

   assassination, killing, homicide, murders, killed, manslaughter, kill, assassinate, killings, slaying, murderer, death, crime, shooting

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1. Ben Emmerson:

   The same scientific evidence ultimately proves beyond doubt that the murder was commissioned by the Russian state.

2. Brian Dugan:

   I want people to look at that video and look at how that person walks, it’s clear to me that this person is able to flip a switch and go off and murder someone.

3. Defense Department spokesman Peter Cook:

   Basim Muhammad Ahmad Sultan al-Bajari used Basim Muhammad Ahmad Sultan al-Bajari military experience to consolidate ISIL's control over Mosul, where they have engaged in dictatorial rule and sectarian murder and oppression since 2014. Hatim Talib al-Hamduni was an ISIL military commander in Mosul and the head of military police for self-proclaimed Ninawa state.

4. Keisha Lance Bottoms:

   I am a mother to four black children in America, one of whom is 18 years old, and when I saw the murder of George Floyd, I hurt like a mother would hurt. And yesterday when I heard there were rumors about violent protests in Atlanta, I did what a mother would do, I called my son and I said,' Where are you ?' I said,' I can not protect you, and black boys shouldn't be out today.'.

5. Josefina Vidal:

   We've reminded the U.S. government that in its country they've given shelter to dozens and dozens of Cuban citizens, some of them accused of horrible crimes, some accused of terrorism, murder and kidnapping, and in every case the U.S. government has decided to welcome them.