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Definition of Murder

1. Noun. Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being.

2. Verb. Kill intentionally and with premeditation. "Sam cannot murder Sue "; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"

3. Verb. Alter so as to make unrecognizable. "The tourists murdered the French language"

Definition of Murder

1. n. The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.

2. v. t. To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.

Definition of Murder

1. Noun. An act of deliberate killing of another human being. ¹

2. Noun. (legal) The crime of deliberate killing. ¹

3. Noun. ''(When used as a predicative noun)'': Something terrible to endure. ¹

4. Noun. The collective noun for crows ¹

5. Verb. To deliberately kill (a person or persons). ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) (sports figuratively colloquial) To defeat decisively. ¹

7. Verb. To botch or mangle ¹

8. Verb. (figuratively colloquial) To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody). ¹

9. Verb. (figuratively colloquial British) to devour, ravish. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Murder

1. to kill unlawfully with premeditated malice [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Murder

1. 1. To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder. 2. To destroy; to put an end to. "[Canst thou] murder thy breath in middle of a word?" (Shak) 3. To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English. Synonym: To kill, assassinate, slay. See Kill. Origin: OE. Mortheren, murtheren, AS. Myrrian; akin to OHG. Murdiren, Goth. Maorrjan. See Murder. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Murder

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muramoylpentapeptide carboxypeptidase muramyl muramyl dipeptide muras murataite murder (current term) murder-suicide murder-suicides murder by suicide murder charge

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Literary usage of Murder

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"Breach of local and other In 1962, 148 cases of murder of ... Capital Betting and Gaming 4.901 2556 murder.*—18 victims were murdered by 19 known Education ..."

2. The Law-dictionary, Explaining the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the ...by Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, Thomas Colpitts Granger by Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, Thomas Colpitts Granger (1835)
"persons convicted of murder or of being an accessory before the fact, shall suffer death as a felon, and every accessory after the fact shall be liable to ..."

3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1913)
"Ritual murder. American reflections on the ritual murder case. Cur. Opinion. ... Russian comment on the ritual murder trial. Lit. Digest. 47: 1067-8. ..."

4. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"But murder and treason are exceptions to this rule; and here it is said that no proof of actual constraint by the husband operates as an excuse. ..."

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