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

Rhys plays Nile Jarvis, the menacing and manipulative real estate scion suspected of murdering his first wife. — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026

As interviewees list justifications for murdering civilians, including children, the camera’s gaze eventually falls on the IDF’s own military headquarters. — Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2026

The 36-year-old is charged with murdering 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan at the family's Massachusetts home. — Melina Khan, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026

Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif gangs The two Haitian groups are mainly linked to arms trafficking, kidnapping, murdering, extortion and, to a lesser extent, to drug trafficking. — Maria Verza, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2026

The two Haitian groups are mainly linked to arms trafficking, kidnapping, murdering, extortion and, to a lesser extent, to drug trafficking. — ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026

Beatty was cast as the infamous murder suspect Lizzie Borden, who was charged with murdering her father and stepmother in 1892 but ultimately acquitted. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Sep. 2026

Their son Nick Reiner, 32, is charged with murdering the couple and lying in wait. — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 7 Sep. 2026

D4vd is charged with first-degree murder with the special circumstances of lying in wait, committing the crime for financial gain and murdering a witness to an investigation. — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2026