Definition for Murder:

• mur'd[. e]r, n. the act of putting a person to death, intentionally and from malice.-- v.t. to commit murder: to destroy: to put an end to.-- n. MUR'DERER, one who murders, or is guilty of murder:-- fem. MUR'DERESS.-- adj. MUR'DEROUS, guilty of murder: consisting in, or fond of, murder: bloody: cruel.-- adv. MUR'DEROUSLY.-- n. MUR'DRESS, a battlement with interstices for firing through.-- MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE, murder with deliberation and premeditation, or that committed in the furtherance of any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary-- IN THE SECOND DEGREE, murder of all other kinds; MURDER WILL OUT, murder cannot remain hidden. [ A.S. morthor-- morth, death; Ger. mord, Goth. maurthr; cf. L. mors, mortis, death.]

Synonyms for Murder:

• adj.

  •hateful (adjective)
  • malevolent.
  •important (adjective)
  • noteworthy.
  •malevolent (adjective)
  • murderous.

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • execution,
  • slaying.
  •carnage (noun)
  • hecatomb,
  • taking out,
  • blood bath,
  • offing,
  • havoc.
  •crime (noun)
  • felony.
  •destruction (noun)
  • ruination.
  •homicide (noun)
  • assassination.
  •killing (noun)
  • purging,
  • homicide,
  • elimination,
  • crime,
  • asphyxiation,
  • terrorism,
  • the business,
  • shooting,
  • Dispatching,
  • removal,
  • extermination,
  • off,
  • Snuffing,
  • death,
  • annihilation,
  • HIT,
  • Knifing,
  • strangulation,
  • butchery,
  • hanging,
  • the works,
  • butchering.

• v.

  •change (verb)
  • mangle,
  • mutilate.
  •kill (verb)
  • smite,
  • cool,
  • smother,
  • eradicate,
  • behead,
  • dust off,
  • put to sleep,
  • take for a ride,
  • chill,
  • butcher,
  • mar,
  • drub,
  • spoil,
  • suffocate,
  • dispatch,
  • defeat,
  • strangle,
  • execute,
  • ice,
  • garotte,
  • abolish,
  • misuse,
  • assassinate,
  • snuff,
  • exterminate,
  • drown,
  • extinguish,
  • sacrifice,
  • finish,
  • asphyxiate,
  • hang,
  • take a life.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • decapitate,
  • electrocute,
  • gun down,
  • parricide,
  • silence,
  • starve,
  • disembowel,
  • patricide,
  • spear,
  • infanticide,
  • mow down,
  • fry,
  • dismember,
  • immolate,
  • garrotte,
  • knife.
  •
  • erase,
  • shed blood,
  • atrocity,
  • zap,
  • guillotine,
  • orphan,
  • put away,
  • destroy.
  •
  • wipe out,
  • blood,
  • gas,
  • martyr.
  •
  • rub out,
  • crush,
  • dispose of,
  • rub.
  •
  • savage.
  •
  • burn.
  •
  • waste.
  •
  • get.
  •ambush
  • snipe.
  •annihilation
  • extinction.
  •bring down
  • lay low.
  •kill
  • snuff out,
  • killing,
  • garrote.
  •Other relevant words:
  • disposal,
  • hairy,
  • derive,
  • gehenna,
  • ousting,
  • rubbing out,
  • grave,
  • bitch,
  • detective novel,
  • bump,
  • routing out,
  • rid,
  • wasting,
  • run into,
  • mop up,
  • bungle,
  • eradication,
  • ascetic,
  • clobber,
  • stifle,
  • lisp,
  • detective story,
  • dirty work,
  • quietus,
  • immensely,
  • abate,
  • best,
  • mystery,
  • perform,
  • headstrong,
  • severely,
  • check,
  • cut up,
  • effusion of blood,
  • muddle,
  • Missay,
  • blunder,
  • stagnant,
  • splutter,
  • fumble,
  • objectionable,
  • utterly,
  • get through,
  • deface,
  • cream,
  • Trucidation,
  • discharge,
  • mass execution,
  • implementation,
  • impinge on,
  • mince,
  • Hanky Panky,
  • gibber,
  • enormously,
  • martyrdom,
  • make,
  • drawl,
  • Crows,
  • victimize,
  • dismissal,
  • ouster,
  • exceedingly,
  • thuggery,
  • unapproachable,
  • whodunit,
  • polish off,
  • obliteration,
  • beat,
  • bloodbath,
  • foul-up,
  • take,
  • scrag,
  • greatly,
  • DO,
  • bosh,
  • shatter,
  • strike,
  • exceptionally,
  • awfully,
  • whip,
  • stamp out,
  • clear up,
  • achieve,
  • Maud,
  • outstanding,
  • loathsome,
  • faux pas,
  • knock-off,
  • stumble,
  • malicious,
  • bollix,
  • intensely,
  • send off,
  • austere,
  • wreck,
  • wiping out,
  • topple,
  • overwhelm,
  • move out,
  • doing in,
  • overthrow,
  • bury,
  • deep,
  • mass extermination,
  • guile,
  • bumble,
  • deception,
  • arrive at,
  • tremendously,
  • capital punishment,
  • come to,
  • Murdering,
  • slice off,
  • overcome,
  • jabber,
  • uproot,
  • boggle,
  • trim,
  • exacting,
  • gain,
  • devastate,
  • matricide,
  • overly,
  • batter,
  • perfidiousness,
  • trample,
  • killer,
  • overrun,
  • expulsion,
  • acquire,
  • too,
  • Thuggism,
  • desperately,
  • win over,
  • skunk,
  • terrible,
  • subjugate,
  • skulduggery,
  • ride roughshod over,
  • suppress,
  • wrap up,
  • mispronounce,
  • mass destruction,
  • produce,
  • diminish,
  • accept,
  • difficult,
  • testing,
  • extremely,
  • off-the-record,
  • transfer,
  • decimate,
  • miscue,
  • treachery,
  • disfigure,
  • fat,
  • lumber,
  • thwart,
  • do violence to,
  • agony,
  • executing,
  • lick,
  • malignant,
  • daunting,
  • shoot-down,
  • settle,
  • thresh,
  • finish up,
  • muffle,
  • do for,
  • chicanery,
  • get rid of,
  • extirpate,
  • torment,
  • demolish,
  • slip,
  • Sororicide,
  • defenestration,
  • bad,
  • vanquish,
  • dark,
  • fatality,
  • lay waste,
  • ravage,
  • terminate,
  • hugely,
  • collide with,
  • polish,
  • lastly,
  • gross,
  • thuggee,
  • excessively,
  • genocide,
  • make away with,
  • croak,
  • eat up,
  • burke,
  • clearing out,
  • dense,
  • subdue,
  • mumble,
  • Mump,
  • stop,
  • absolutely,
  • dirty,
  • violence,
  • sputter,
  • outdo,
  • blood-letting,
  • foul,
  • fratricide,
  • weed out,
  • withdraw,
  • Assassin,
  • gore,
  • holocaust,
  • worst,
  • smash,
  • violate,
  • Deathblow,
  • annihilate,
  • collective noun,
  • take life,
  • conquer,
  • reach,
  • abattoir,
  • duplicity,
  • battue,
  • blunder on,
  • absent,
  • badly,
  • heavy,
  • blunder upon,
  • complete,
  • Foozle,
  • snuffle,
  • trip,
  • nasty,
  • muff,
  • demanding,
  • annihilating,
  • pulverize,
  • grievous,
  • sharp practice,
  • flounder,
  • vitiate,
  • botch,
  • extraordinarily,
  • mutter,
  • FELONIOUS HOMICIDE,
  • weeding out,
  • attain,
  • loss of life,
  • regicide,
  • squash,
  • flatten,
  • solemn,
  • important,
  • performance,
  • ejection,
  • obliterate,
  • rack up,
  • Exterminating,
  • doing away with,
  • Double dealing,
  • whisper,
  • Solecize,
  • perfidy,
  • Uxoricide,
  • Slaughtering,
  • deeply,
  • despatch,
  • mouth,
  • much,
  • unseating.

Paraphrases for Murder:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    Murdering.

• Forward Entailment

  • Adjective
    killing.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Killings, killing.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    crime, killing.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    killing.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    slaughter.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    massacre.
  • Verb, past tense
    Massacred, Died, ordered, whacked, Happened.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    ruining.
  • Verb, base form
    massacre.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    murdered, assassination.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    murdered, assassination, shooting, extermination, premeditation, Assassin, carnage, genocide, felony.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    shooting.
  • Verb, base form
    slaughter.

Antonyms for Murder:

• v.

  • kill
    inspirit, warm, create, encourage, start, protect, guard, help, institute, keep, save, construct, establish, heal, heat, lose, preserve, build, continue, light, give birth, bear, grow, aid, ratify.

Homophones for Murder:

• Mary Tudor, murderer, mortar, murderee, marauder, myrrh tree, main rotor, mortuary, money order, martyr.

Hypernym for Murder:

• n.

  • act
    gore, bloodshed, Uxoricide, thuggee, elimination, regicide, shoot-down, mariticide, butchery, fratricide, infanticide, mass murder, HIT, liquidation, assassination, lynching, carnage, Filicide, massacre, parricide, tyrannicide, dry-gulching, contract killing, slaughter.

Hyponym for Murder:

• n.

  • act
    homicide.

• v.

  • change
    warp, distort, falsify, garble.