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
• damages
• mangles
• 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

Prosecutors say Clancy planned the murders before faking a suicide attempt. — Aaron Parseghian, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026

Evidence recovered from Evonitz’s apartment, former residences and vehicle linked him to the abductions and murders of three girls from Spotsylvania County, Virginia — Sofia Silva, 16; Kristin Lisk, 15; and her sister, Kati Lisk, 12. — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2026

Reiner, 32, has been indicted for the murders of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, in their Brentwood home in December 2025. — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 16 Aug. 2026

Dostie, who worked with a skilled cadaver dog, had become convinced that there were more bodies buried at Barker Ranch, the Death Valley outpost where the Manson Family fled after the murders. — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2026

According to Day, Manson maintained his innocence in the 1969 murders of nine individuals up until his death. — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 15 Aug. 2026

Prosecutors allege that Clancy methodically planned the murders by sending her husband to pick up medication and takeout, and then strangling the children with exercise bands at their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home while he was gone. — Melina Khan, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026

On October 3, 1995, after an eight-month trial that featured allegations of police planting evidence and gloves that Simpson supposedly wore the night of the murders not fitting him, Simpson was acquitted. — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026

The murders unfolded five months after Sierra was released from jail for violating probation after police located a gun inside the home. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2026

Verb

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

Her unscrupulous, power-hungry uncle Claudius (Kôji Yakusho) murders his own brother to become king. — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026