Synonyms of murders

murders 1 of 2

noun

plural of murder

1

as in nightmares

a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness

this weather is murder on my sinuses

Synonyms & Similar Words

• nightmares
• horrors
• tortures
• agonies
• miseries
• torments
• curses
• tragedies
• hells
• misfortunes
• ordeals
• Gehennas
• tribulations
• trials
• calamities
• crosses
• afflictions
• calvaries
• galls
• thorns
• drags
• downers
• bummers

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• heavens
• pleasures
• fun
• joys
• riots
• diversions
• entertainments
• delights
• recreations
• picnics
• paradises
• larks

2

as in homicides

the intentional and unlawful taking of another person's life

arrested for attempting to commit murder

Synonyms & Similar Words

• homicides
• slayings
• killings
• massacres
• assassinations
• foul play
• rubouts
• executions
• manslaughters
• slaughters
• blood
• carnages
• butcheries
• bloodsheds
• destructions
• decimations
• parricides
• mercy killings
• hits
• regicides
• euthanasias
• chance-medleys
• fratricides
• matricides
• patricides
• filicides
• uxoricides

murders

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of murder

1

as in assassinates

to put to death deliberately

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assassinates
• slays
• executes
• kills
• dispatches
• slaughters
• offs
• neutralizes
• gets
• snuffs
• takes out
• liquidates
• whacks
• shoots
• terminates
• destroys
• knocks off
• rubs out
• ices
• does away with
• puts away
• croaks
• does in
• massacres
• bumps off
• claims
• cuts down
• blows away
• shoots down
• butchers
• carries off
• zaps
• smites
• eliminates
• mows (down)
• fells
• blots out
• eradicates
• exterminates
• wipes out
• annihilates

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• raises
• animates
• restores
• revives
• resurrects
• resuscitates

2

as in fumbles

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

• fumbles
• blows
• dubs
• ruins
• butchers
• bungles
• boots
• botches
• fouls up
• spoils
• destroys
• flubs
• boggles
• screws up
• mangles
• damages
• muffs
• bobbles
• mars
• goofs (up)
• injures
• fluffs
• bumbles
• mucks up
• messes (up)
• blunders
• wrecks
• mutilates
• foozles
• buggers (up)
• flaws
• harms
• hurts
• blights
• bollixes (up)
• gums (up)
• louses up
• muddles
• impairs
• blemishes
• vitiates
• piffles
• mismanages
• mishandles

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reforms
• improves
• enhances
• helps
• remedies
• repairs
• refines
• betters
• rectifies
• ameliorates
• doctors
• fixes
• meliorates
• renovates
• patches
• reconditions
• revamps

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of murders

Noun

But, according to the warrant, location data from the Equinox show the vehicle leaving Gonzalez’s house in Florida City and traveling to the scene of the murders. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026

Investigators stressed that the poison was not the potassium cyanide used in the Tylenol murders. — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Although heavily implied, officers at the news conference stopped short of labeling Betkouski as a suspect in the Tylenol murders. — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026

Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for the death penalty in the case under a new law applying capital punishment to terrorism and nationalistic murders. — Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026

And while there’d been some unhappiness between her and the Borden girls a few years before the murders — a disagreement over a property the family owned — there wasn’t the kind of outright resentment portrayed in the show. — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2026

The Chicago Police Department said in a statement that its detectives have been in contact with Idaho authorities to determine whether their findings are connected to the Tylenol murders investigation, which remains an open cold case. — ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026

Both Norman and Ramey were convicted of the murders and sentenced to death. — Swasti Singhai, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026

Which was a more challenging scene to film in the early episodes, the murders or the near-death attempt and vomiting? — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026

Verb

By definition, a serial killer is someone who murders two or more people during separate events, with gaps of time in between. — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 15 Sep. 2026

To get even with Kanan, Juke murders Raq, her surrogate mother. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2026

Moriarty has reported on the yogurt shop murders for over 30 years. — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 26 June 2026

Not the family stuff, like Natalie’s spontaneous nipple piercing after making out with Cady’s maybe-daughter, Nevaeh (Malia Pyles), who later murders her own mother after kissing her, for way too long, on the mouth. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 26 June 2026

Red is immediately abducted, cut open in an ambulance, and injected with pain-magnifying drugs by his torturers, while Liz accidentally murders the mysterious man surveilling her next door. — Ew Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026

During that summer — against the backdrop of Apollo 11, Woodstock, and more eerily, the Manson murders — Tatiana had gone to Brazil for vacation. — M. Sara Rosenthal, STAT, 25 June 2026

Kingpin’s enforcer Buck Cashman (Arty Froushan) shockingly murders Deputy Mayor Daniel Blake (Michael Gandolfini) in a showdown of Fisk’s two right-hand men. — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026

In 1971, a jury in Los Angeles recommended the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers for the 1969 Tate-La Bianca murders. — ABC News, 9 Mar. 2026