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

Mackenzie was charged with the murders alongside 28 of his followers, including guards who enforced his fasting directives and gravediggers who helped conceal the mass graves. — ABC News, 6 Nov. 2026

Alabama capped off the triple execution day by putting Michael Taylor, 54, to death for the 1991 murders of an older couple who were beaten to death with a metal bar during a robbery inside their home. — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2026

During his closing argument, defense lawyer Paolo Foti requested that Kaufmann be acquitted of both charges on the grounds that there was not enough hard evidence to prove his client committed the murders. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2026

The state’s roster of death row inmates includes at least 28 men convicted of murders committed in Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer, Yolo and Sutter counties. — Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2026

But independent researchers have found those killings represent a tiny fraction of murders across the country, whose victims are disproportionately people living in poor urban areas, where residents are predominantly Black. — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 5 Nov. 2026

Francis Kaufmann, 47, fled to the Greek island of Skiathos after the killings in June 2025 and was extradited to Italy to face trial for the murders of Anastasia Trofimova, 28, and their daughter, Andromeda, who was nearly a year old. — Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026

Meanwhile Detective Lin, whose son needs a heart transplant, pegs Owen as the prime suspect in a string of murders in which the victims’ organs are removed. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Nov. 2026

The escalating legal battle centers on the holdout juror, who said he’s been harassed since the trial ended but continues to stand by his position that Clancy premeditated the murders of her children. — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 29 Oct. 2026

Verb

This included three of the women involved in the brutal Manson murders — Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten — all scheduled to be gassed. — M. Sara Rosenthal, STAT, 13 Oct. 2026

Joe almost murders Morgan (Sherry and Morgan in the same episode? — Alice Burton, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026

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

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

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