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murder

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of murder

1 a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness

  • this weather is murder on my sinuses
Synonyms of murder

agony, Gehenna, hell, horror, misery, nightmare, torment, torture
Words Related to murder

affliction, calvary, cross, curse, ordeal, trial, tribulation

calamity, misfortune, tragedy

gall, thorn

bummer, downer, drag
Near Antonyms of murder

delight, diversion, entertainment, fun, joy, pleasure, recreation

lark, picnic, riot
Antonyms of murder

heaven, paradise

2 the intentional and unlawful taking of another personʼs life

  • arrested for attempting to commit murder
Synonyms of murder

blood, foul play, homicide, rubout, slaying
Words Related to murder

chance-medley, killing, manslaughter

bloodshed, butchery, carnage, decimation, destruction, massacre, slaughter

assassination, execution, hit

euthanasia, mercy killing

filicide, fratricide, matricide, parricide, patricide, regicide, uxoricide

murder

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of murder

1 to put to death deliberately

  • those people made me so mad I felt like I wanted to murder them
Synonyms of murder

assassinate, bump off, croak [slang], dispatch, do in, execute, get, ice [slang], knock off, liquidate, neutralize, off [slang], put away, rub out, slay, snuff, take out, terminate, whack [slang]
Words Related to murder

blow away, shoot, shoot down

blot out, carry off, claim, cut down, destroy, fell, kill, smite, zap

butcher, massacre, mow (down), slaughter

annihilate, eliminate, eradicate, exterminate, wipe out
Phrases Synonymous with murder

do away with
Near Antonyms of murder

animate, raise, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revive

2 to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way

  • we listened in horror as she murdered our favorite song on stage
Synonyms of murder

blow, bobble, boggle, bollix (up), boot, botch, bugger (up), bumble, bungle, butcher, dub, flub, fluff, foozle, foul up, fumble, goof (up), louse up, mangle, mess (up), muck up, muff, screw up
Words Related to murder

blunder, gum (up), muddle, piffle

blemish, blight, damage, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, injure, mar, mutilate, ruin, spoil, vitiate

destroy, wreck

mishandle, mismanage
Near Antonyms of murder

ameliorate, better, enhance, help, improve, meliorate, rectify, refine, reform, remedy

doctor, fix, patch, recondition, renovate, repair, revamp

Synonym Discussion of murder

kill, slay, murder, assassinate, dispatch, execute mean to deprive of life. kill merely states the fact of death caused by an agency in any manner.
    • killed in an accident
    • frost killed the plants
slay is a chiefly literary term implying deliberateness and violence but not necessarily motive.
    • slew thousands of the Philistines
murder specifically implies stealth and motive and premeditation and therefore full moral responsibility.
    • convicted of murdering a rival
assassinate applies to deliberate killing openly or secretly often for political motives.
    • terrorists assassinated the Senator
dispatch stresses quickness and directness in putting to death.
    • dispatched the sentry with one bullet
execute stresses putting to death as a legal penalty.
    • executed by lethal gas

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