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, 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

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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. Steve Lydon:

   Recognizing that the murder of George Floyd was likely to create particularly acute racialized trauma, I felt I had an immediate duty to protect and support employees who may have been traumatized and may have heightened ongoing trauma by having to deal with Derek Chauvins, out of care and concern, and without the comfort of time, I made the decision to limit exposure to employees of color to a murder suspect who could potentially aggravate those feelings.

2. George Floyd:

   You run the risk of jurors hating him even more if he testifies, and him going down on murder charges.

3. Police Sgt. Pete Simpson:

   The headlines are about mayhem, murder and madness. But most of that does not affect people the way car prowls, bike theft and things like that affect people, because it happens to a lot more people.

4. Joan Lippett:

   There was a murder there. There was some people that they took in, felt sorry for or something, and they found out the couple had money.

5. Mark Bowden:

   However, the brutal murder of this woman is an unspeakably horrendous act.