Synonyms of murdered

murdered

verb

past tense of murder

1

as in assassinated

to put to death deliberately

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assassinated
• executed
• killed
• slaughtered
• dispatched
• got
• neutralized
• destroyed
• snuffed
• liquidated
• offed
• slew
• whacked
• terminated
• put away
• croaked
• knocked off
• iced
• took out
• did in
• bumped off
• rubbed out
• did away with
• massacred
• claimed
• butchered
• shot
• cut down
• shot down
• eliminated
• felled
• exterminated
• eradicated
• carried off
• blotted out
• smote
• annihilated
• blew away
• wiped out
• zapped
• mowed (down)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• raised
• restored
• revived
• animated
• resurrected
• resuscitated

2

as in fumbled

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

we listened in horror as she murdered our favorite song on stage

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fumbled
• blew
• butchered
• ruined
• dubbed
• destroyed
• mangled
• bungled
• booted
• botched
• spoiled
• injured
• fouled up
• screwed up
• muffed
• marred
• fluffed
• boggled
• damaged
• buggered (up)
• flubbed
• mutilated
• wrecked
• bobbled
• bumbled
• mucked up
• goofed (up)
• messed (up)
• harmed
• foozled
• hurt
• impaired
• blundered
• loused up
• flawed
• muddled
• bollixed (up)
• blighted
• gummed (up)
• blemished
• vitiated
• mismanaged
• piffled
• mishandled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• improved
• helped
• reformed
• enhanced
• refined
• remedied
• rectified
• bettered
• ameliorated
• repaired
• renovated
• fixed
• meliorated
• doctored
• patched
• reconditioned
• revamped

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of murdered

The flow of money from Qatar into Gaza has taken on new significance since October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists stormed southern Israel, murdered some 1,200 people, and took 251 more hostage. — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 18 Oct. 2026

The child was Leslie Ann Downey, one of five victims murdered by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between 1963 and 1965. — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2026

When the village doctor is found murdered, villagers turn on the boy – leaving the amnesiac stranger, who is experiencing flashbacks to a previous life in England, as his only hope as his powers of deduction return. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026

Homicide detectives took over the investigation and determined he had been murdered right around the time when mob organization was dying out in Sin City. — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

There were seven Black players total, so three left, and one is a Traitor, so she will not be murdered. — Alice Burton, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026

Both Chun-Li and her boss have ulterior motives, Bison seeking to exploit the fighters’ powers for his own nefarious end and Chun-Li secretly an Interpol agent seeking to take Bison down for having murdered her father. — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026

Flowers and candles were held Wednesday night in remembrance of a Reading, Massachusetts, mother who was allegedly murdered by her own son. — Tammy Mutasa, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026

The day is often marked by protests against memorials to Christopher Columbus, for environmental justice, for the return of Indigenous lands and in honor of missing and murdered Indigenous women. — ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026