Synonyms of murdering

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adjective

as in murderous

eager for or marked by the shedding of blood, extreme violence, or killing

a vow to bring down the murdering fiend who had destroyed his family

Synonyms & Similar Words

• murderous
• bloody
• savage
• brutal
• homicidal
• violent
• bloodthirsty
• vicious
• ferocious
• fierce
• sanguinary
• cruel
• ruthless
• contentious
• sanguine
• hostile
• sanguineous
• sadistic
• aggressive
• bloody-minded
• merciless
• barbaric
• barbarous
• heartless
• hateful
• inhumane
• malicious
• antagonistic
• belligerent
• pitiless
• combative
• cold-blooded
• malignant
• quarrelsome
• bellicose
• malevolent
• malign
• truculent
• bloodstained
• gladiatorial
• pugnacious
• assertive
• discordant
• wanton
• spiteful
• scrappy
• gory
• fell
• grim
• mean
• nasty
• despiteful

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• peaceful
• disarming
• peaceable
• conciliatory
• sympathetic
• pacific
• propitiatory
• benign
• humane
• kind
• compassionate
• appeasing
• warm
• placating
• pacifying
• dovish
• unassertive
• mollifying
• unaggressive
• kindhearted
• placative
• merciful
• peacemaking
• placatory
• lenient
• tenderhearted
• benevolent
• benignant
• gentle
• warmhearted
• surrendering
• tender
• amiable
• good-hearted
• yielding
• kindly
• clement
• affable
• submissive
• amicable

murdering

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verb

present participle of murder

1

as in assassinating

to put to death deliberately

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assassinating
• slaying
• killing
• executing
• dispatching
• slaughtering
• neutralizing
• destroying
• getting
• liquidating
• whacking
• terminating
• snuffing
• shooting
• offing
• taking out
• putting away
• doing away with
• croaking
• doing in
• icing
• knocking off
• bumping off
• rubbing out
• massacring
• claiming
• eliminating
• butchering
• cutting down
• smiting
• eradicating
• exterminating
• zapping
• shooting down
• blowing away
• annihilating
• carrying off
• felling
• blotting out
• mowing (down)
• wiping out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• restoring
• raising
• reviving
• animating
• resurrecting
• resuscitating

2

as in fumbling

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

• fumbling
• blowing
• ruining
• destroying
• butchering
• dubbing
• spoiling
• mangling
• bungling
• booting
• botching
• injuring
• marring
• bumbling
• fluffing
• boggling
• damaging
• screwing up
• wrecking
• mutilating
• fouling up
• mucking up
• goofing (up)
• bobbling
• flubbing
• harming
• muffing
• messing (up)
• foozling
• impairing
• hurting
• buggering (up)
• blundering
• lousing up
• muddling
• bollixing (up)
• blighting
• gumming (up)
• vitiating
• mismanaging
• flawing
• blemishing
• piffling
• mishandling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• improving
• helping
• enhancing
• reforming
• refining
• bettering
• remedying
• rectifying
• ameliorating
• repairing
• fixing
• renovating
• meliorating
• revamping
• patching
• reconditioning
• doctoring

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of murdering

Verb

Caleb Flynn, the former American Idol contestant who was found guilty of murdering his wife, Ashley Flynn, has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2026

The former American Idol contestant and church worship leader convicted of murdering his wife and staging the scene to look like a burglary was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Monday. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2026

Both daughters implored their father to confess to murdering their mother. — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 5 Oct. 2026

An elderly couple charged with murdering their son-in-law, New York Times games engineer Jonathan McKinsey, battled with him over gender identity, according to court records. — Hannah Knowles, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2026

In May, Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994, was not executed because officials could not find a suitable vein for an IV line, so the drugs were not administered. — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

The man accused of murdering former UK lawmaker Ann Widdecombe has been charged with preparing acts of terror, including against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, British police said Friday. — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026

The list includes but is not limited to driving a man to suicide, killing her own parents, murdering her surrogate mother, and abandoning her twin boys at birth. — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 25 Sep. 2026

Season 4 of the horror series is a retelling of the life of Lizzie Borden, a Massachusetts woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax in the 1800s. — Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026