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

If the appeals court agrees, Patterson would only be the second woman to receive a full life sentence in Australia, after Katherine Knight, who murdered her de facto husband and cooked parts of his body. — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026

On August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother, Andrew and Abby Borden, were murdered in the family’s home in Fall River, Massachusetts. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Aug. 2026

In one chapter, Horsch, who died in 2025, claims to have murdered a woman and later disposed of her body through a chemical process. — Nate Sylves, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026

Spencer is Emmy-nominated for narrating the true crime Lost Women docuseries, which gives voice to murdered and disregarded women. — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 16 Aug. 2026

Chloe Webb’s performance as Nancy Spungen, the junkie girlfriend who Sid probably murdered (the role of Nancy was originally supposed to go to Courtney Love), is breathtaking in the nakedness of its emotion. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026

Itzkowitz is the eldest son of Albert Itzkowitz, who was brutally murdered in broad daylight at Kissena Park in Queens on the afternoon of May 18. — Simcha Itzkowitz, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026

McDonnell would twist the story later, according to Walker and others, claiming her sister had been held for ransom and murdered, ostensibly as a roundabout way to signal evidence of her family’s fortune. — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2026