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

On June 11, Vance Boelter pleaded guilty to federal charges in the murders, shootings and stalking of the victims. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026

In 2001, Overton was convicted and sentenced to life for the 1996 burglary that led to him being charged for the MacIvors’ murders. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026

As of Sunday, there have been seven murders in the NYC transit system this year, a 75% increase compared to four murders in the subway for all of last year, police said. — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026

An amateur inventor played by Tom Stourton creates the first moving image machine to follow the work of an all-ladies ghost-hunting society who believe the gruesome murders across East London are not being carried out by a man, but a monster. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2026

Also well drawn is the relationship between Caitlyn and her longtime fiancé John (Max Minghella), one of Gotham’s few uncorrupt cops who happens to be investigating the string of murders that follow in Matt’s wake. — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026

Unsurprisingly, after the murders, his paranoia ramped up exponentially. — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 20 Oct. 2026

Foxtrot has been linked to several murders across ​Europe, and Britain and the US allege the group was behind attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets on behalf of Iran, which denies the allegation. — CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026

Director Bong Joon Ho’s iconic procedural follows a sometimes hilariously inept investigation into a series of small town murders. — David Faris, TheWeek, 16 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