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Meaning of 'murder' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Murder [ n.]
- The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.
- To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.
- To destroy; to put an end to.
- To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.

Meaning of 'murder' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . murder [ v]
Meaning (1):
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
Example in sentence:
  • The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered
Meaning (2):
- alter so as to make unrecognizable
Example in sentence:
  • The tourists murdered the French language

Nearby Words:

muraena muraenoid murage mural murdered murderer murderess murdering murderment murderous

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