murder
murder
nounDefinition of MURDER
1
a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness <this weather is murder on my sinuses>
Related Words affliction, calvary, cross, curse, ordeal, trial, tribulation; calamity, misfortune, tragedy; gall, thorn; bummer, downer, drag
2
the intentional and unlawful taking of another person's life <arrested for attempting to commit murder>
Related Words chance-medley, killing, manslaughter; bloodshed, butchery, carnage, decimation, destruction, massacre, slaughter; assassination, execution, hit; euthanasia, mercy killing; filicide, fratricide, matricide, parricide, patricide, regicide, uxoricide
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