Synonyms of murdering

murdering 1 of 2

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
• damaging
• boggling
• 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

After the South Carolina Supreme Court overturned Murdaugh’s conviction for murdering his wife and son earlier this year -- citing jury tampering by the court clerk in the case -- Judge Debra McCaslin scheduled his retrial for April 5, 2027. — Janice McDonald, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026

He is separately charged in New York state court with murdering Thompson and other counts. — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026

Nick Reiner has been indicted on charges of murdering his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, as prosecutors aim to expedite the process of getting to a trial. — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026

The Hitlerite hordes are murdering and outraging the peaceful inhabitants of our country, having no mercy on women, children or old people. — Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026

The trip changed his life when terrorist Rashid Baz opened fire on the van, murdering 16-year-old Ari Halberstam, and injuring several others. — Lisa Rozner, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026

Cincinnati police said Kaitlin Evans, 38, and her co-parents, Kirby Rankin, 33, and Nessa Keaney, 23, have all pleaded not guilty to murdering 7-year-old William Evans. — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026

The camps destroyed the bodies and spirits of their inmates before murdering them; entire populations could be rendered superfluous through bureaucratized terror. — David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

In 1893, Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden was tried for allegedly murdering her father and stepmother with an axe inside the family home. — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026