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Synonyms for homicide
ˈhɒm əˌsaɪd, ˈhoʊ mə-homi·cide

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Wiktionary3.0 / 2 votes

  1. homicidenoun

    Synonyms:
    first-degree murder, murderer, killer, assassin, manslaughter, assassination, killing, murder, second-degree murder, man-slayer

  2. homicidenoun

    The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.

    Synonyms:
    manslaughter, assassin, second-degree murder, killing, murderer, assassination, killer, murder, first-degree murder, man-slayer

  3. homicidenoun

    A person who kills another.

    Synonyms:
    assassin, murder, man-slayer, first-degree murder, assassination, second-degree murder, manslaughter, killing, murderer, killer

  4. homicidenoun

    A victim of homicide; a person who has been unlawfully killed by someone else.

    Synonyms:
    second-degree murder, manslaughter, murder, killer, murderer, man-slayer, first-degree murder, assassin, killing, assassination

Princeton's WordNet

  1. homicidenoun

    the killing of a human being by another human being

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Dictionary of English Synonymes4.0 / 1 vote

  1. homicidenoun

    Synonyms:
    manslaughter, MURDER

  2. homicidenoun

    Synonyms:
    manslayer

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "homicide":

    manslaughter, murder, homicidal, killing, crim, murders, killings

Nicknames0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of known nicknames for "Homicide":

    The Latin Terror, Nelson Rodriguez Erazo

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How to use homicide in a sentence?

  1. Adam Lankford:

    Research shows that basically males commit more homicides than females, regardless of the subtype of homicide.

  2. Danny Cevallos:

    They're going to be anything in the spectrum of murder, manslaughter (or) negligent homicide.

  3. Chief Troy Finner:

    This is what happens, and this is what we talk about: when the community and police officers come together, and not only this homicide, but all homicides in our city.

  4. Robert Berry:

    This remains an active homicide investigation, it's always sensitive to us that every time we have a tragedy such as this, there's a family connected to it.

  5. Anil Tank:

    He has been arrested for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.


Translations for homicide

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  • قتلArabic
  • homicidiCatalan, Valencian
  • Totschlag, Mörder, Mord, TötungsdeliktGerman
  • ανθρωποκτόνος, ανθρωποκτονίαGreek
  • murdoEsperanto
  • homicidio, homicidaSpanish
  • murhaaja, tappaja, murhattu, surmattu, murha, tappo, tapettuFinnish
  • morð, drápFaroese
  • assassinat, meutrier, meurtre, homicide involontaire, meutrière, assassin, homicideFrench
  • homicidioGalician
  • मानव हत्याHindi
  • մարդասպանություն, սպանություն, մարդասպանArmenian
  • manndrápIcelandic
  • omicidio, omicida, omicidio colposo, assassinio, assassina, assassino, omicidio premeditatoItalian
  • 殺人者, 殺人, 人殺しJapanese
  • 살인, 殺人Korean
  • homicīdium, homicīdaLatin
  • slepkavībaLatvian
  • doodslag, moordDutch
  • drapsmann, morder, drapNorwegian
  • zabójstwo, morderczyni, mordercaPolish
  • homicídio, homicidaPortuguese
  • omucidereRomanian
  • убийца, убийствоRussian
  • ubica, убиство, ubojica, umor, умор, убојица, уморство, убоство, umórstvo, ùbōjstvo, убица, ubistvoSerbo-Croatian
  • morilka, morilec, umorSlovene
  • mordoffer, mördare, mordSwedish
  • قتلUrdu
  • 殺人Chinese

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