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

Michael Gargiulo was convicted in August 2019 of murdering Ellerin, 22, and Maria Bruno, 32, and attempting to kill Michelle Murphy, then 26, in 2008. — Chris Boyette, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2026

Carprice Williams is accused of murdering 10-year-old Malayshia Alford and leaving her body in South Jersey. — Joe Holden, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026

They were initially convicted of four murders including three jointly but they are suspected of murdering many more. — Peter White, Deadline, 9 Nov. 2026

The original Scream starred Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott, a high school student who’s reeling from her mother’s murder when a masked killer (known as Ghostface) starts murdering people at her high school. — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2026

Paul Mackenzie, the leader of a Kenyan doomsday cult, has been sentenced to 200 years in prison for murdering 190 children and one adult. — Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2026

Already imprisoned for murdering a woman in Washington state, he was charged in 2008 with the three teenagers’ slayings. — Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2026

An American man was found guilty by a Rome court Thursday of murdering his partner and their infant daughter, whose bodies were found naked in a city park, the LaPresse news agency reported. — Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026

Wade connected with the CODIS administrator in Florida, who was able to track down a vial of blood collected from Bundy following his 1978 arrest in the state after murdering two sorority sisters and a 12-year-old girl. — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2026