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Synonyms for murder
ˈmɜr dərmur·der
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Wiktionary
murderverb
To deliberately kill (a person or persons).
There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone.
Synonyms:
assassinate, manslaughter, assassination, massacre, kill, slaughtermurderverb
To defeat decisively.
Our team is going to murder them.
Synonyms:
wipe the floor with, thrash, trouncemurdernoun
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:
killmurderverb
to devour, ravish.
I could murder a hamburger right now.
Synonyms:
flock
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, slayPreposition:
To kill with or by sword, famine, pestilence, care, grief, etc.; killed for his money, by a robber, with a dagger.
Princeton's WordNet
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 executionmurder, 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, removemangle, 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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Dictionary of English Synonymes
murdernoun
Synonyms:
homicide (with malice), slaughter, massacre, ASSASSINATION, butchery, MANSLAUGHTERmurderverb
Synonyms:
kill (with malice), slay, ASSASSINATE, despatch, put to death
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
murdernoun
Synonyms:
homicide
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "murder":
assassination, killing, homicide, murders, killed, manslaughter, kill, assassinate, killings, slaying, murderer, death, crime, shooting
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#132 | make | |
#225 | off | |
#246 | take | |
#522 | complete | |
#557 | performance | |
#772 | mar | |
#967 | death | |
#1158 | score | |
#1337 | transfer | |
#1551 | hit | |
#1651 | remove | |
#1754 | implementation | |
#2010 | crime | |
#2254 | reach | |
#2491 | gain | |
#2674 | finish | |
#3096 | kill | |
#3281 | killed | |
#3458 | execution | |
#3884 | strike | |
#4553 | murder | |
#4589 | shooting | |
#5175 | shoot | |
#5377 | killing | |
#5685 | discharge | |
#6793 | absent | |
#6859 | execute | |
#8911 | dispatch | |
#10524 | withdraw | |
#12138 | executing | |
#14083 | slaughter | |
#14782 | attain | |
#14956 | massacre | |
#15058 | flock | |
#16340 | butcher | |
#16974 | assassination | |
#17099 | murders | |
#18615 | tally | |
#19018 | homicide | |
#20275 | pip | |
#21870 | killings | |
#22902 | murderer | |
#23314 | despatch | |
#24734 | stumble | |
#27901 | thrash | |
#32348 | slay | |
#34404 | manslaughter | |
#39894 | slaying | |
#41965 | maul | |
#52244 | assassinate | |
#71334 | mangle | |
#102812 | mutilate | |
#144808 | trounce |
How to use murder in a sentence?
His condition has not improved since ; he has not regained consciousness, his wife, Yevgenia, said in an e-mail to RFE/RL and other media outlets. Kara-Murza’s father, a prominent journalist, told Russian media Thursday that the situation appears to be more serious than we thought. His lungs are being artificially ventilated, he is connected to 10 devices. Related ImageExpand / ContractKara-Murza,( l.), is an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as was his ally, Boris Nemtsov,( r.). , who was gunned down near the Kremlin in February. ( Reuters) Kara-Murza's father is a journalist with RFE/RL’s Russian Service. The activist's family was stopped short of raising public questions about whether foul play was involved. There is no criminal case so far, none has been opened because he is simply a normal patient who arrived at a Moscow hospital by ambulance. That’s his status, nothing more, his father told a radio station. Our task right now is to bring him to a normal trajectory of recuperation. We ’ll establish the cause [ of the illness ] later. Open Russia was founded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oil oligarch and Kremlin opponent who lives in Switzerland after Mikhail Khodorkovsky was pardoned by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2013 following 10 years in prison. Open Russia's new documentary accuses Kadyrov, a former rebel fighter who joined forces with the Kremlin in 2000, of participating in murders and torture in the North Caucasus republic. Related ImageExpand / ContractChechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was accused of torture and murder in the new documentary. ( Reuters) Both the Kremlin and Kadyrov have denied involvement in the killing of Boris Nemtsov, although Kadyrov praised the main suspect in the case, a former Chechen police officer, as a.
All of us in Congress agree that we need to see a change in Saudi conduct going forward, the kingdom's concerning conduct is not new, and it reached a turning point in the aftermath of Jamal Khashoggi murder, which was a horrendous act for which we all seek justice. This legislation is meant to address the tensions between our two nations, reevaluate our bilateral relationship, and change Saudi conduct moving forward.
At the time, I didn't. But looking back, I think that maybe the metaphor is not a good one, it should be strictly used. But in this case, it's absolutely appropriate because the Iranians are threatening the murder of millions of Jews.
In the coming months we will be forced to come to grips with the details of a murder that is still unimaginable, i am constantly hounded by the question : How did we get here ? How does a man take the life of his wife and the mother of his daughters ?
How do you keep having murder after murder? We don't have time to recover, i'm mad as hell again. And again and again and again.
Translations for murder
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- moordAfrikaans
- قتل, قَتْل, اِغْتِيَالArabic
- öldürmək, cinayətAzerbaijani
- забо́йстваBelarusian
- уби́йствоBulgarian
- assassinat, assassinarCatalan, Valencian
- vražda, porod, zabít, sprovodit ze světa, zavraždit, zničit, hejnoCzech
- lladd, llofruddio, llofruddiaethWelsh
- smadre, myrde, mord, slå ihjel, kvæleDanish
- mörderisch, ermorden, umbringen, MordGerman
- φονεύω, ανθρωποκτονία, δολοφονία, φόνος, δολοφονώ, σκοτώνωGreek
- murdoEsperanto
- asesinato, asesinar, devorarSpanish
- mõrv, roim, mõrvama, roimama, tapmaEstonian
- قتلPersian
- murha, murhata, parvi, murhaavaFinnish
- meurtre, homicideFrench
- mort, murtScottish Gaelic
- רֶצַח, רצח, הביס, הביע כעס, זעם, טרף, סיוט, להקת עורביםHebrew
- हत्याHindi
- gyilkosság, meggyilkolHungarian
- սպանություն, սպանելArmenian
- pembunuhanIndonesian
- morð, myrða, rústaIcelandic
- massacrare, omicidio, assassinio, assassinare, delitto, distruggereItalian
- 殺人, 殺す, 殺害するJapanese
- მკვლელობაGeorgian
- សម្លាប់Khmer
- 살인, 殺人, 살인죄Korean
- адам өлтүрүүKyrgyz
- occidereLatin
- ຄາດຕະກຳLao
- žmogžudystė, nužudymas, užmuštiLithuanian
- slepkavība, noslepkavot, slepkavotLatvian
- убиствоMacedonian
- കൊലപാതകം, കൊല, ഹത്യMalayalam
- pembunuhanMalay
- လူသတ်မှုBurmese
- moord, de grond in boren, vermoorden, moordenDutch
- overlagt, ta knekken på, drepe, mord, myrde, drapNorwegian
- morderstwo, zabójstwo, zamordować, zabićPolish
- homicídio, tortura, detonar, assassinato, devorar, massacrar, destroçar, assassínio, assassinar, destruir, acabar comPortuguese
- crimă, asasinatRomanian
- убива́ть, уби́йство, уби́ть, разгроми́тьRussian
- убоство, ubistvo, уморство, ùbiti, umórstvo, убити, vrane, zgromiti, умо̀рити, ùbōjstvo, umòriti, убиство, убојствоSerbo-Croatian
- vražda, zavraždiť, vraždiťSlovak
- umor, umoritiSlovene
- mord, sluka, mörda, dödaSwedish
- హత్యTelugu
- куштор, қатл, одамкушӣTajik
- ฆาตกรรมThai
- adam öldürme, cinayet, öldürmek, katletmekTurkish
- вби́вствоUkrainian
- tàn sát, giết người, vụ giết người, ám sát, vụ ám sát, giếtVietnamese
- מאָרדYiddish
- ìpànìyànYoruba
- 謀殺Chinese
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