murder

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable) The crime of killing a person unlawfully, especially with predetermination.
2. (uncountable) The crime of killing a person unlawfully, especially with predetermination.
3. (countable) The act of killing a person (or sometimes another being) unlawfully, especially with predetermination
4. (uncountable) Something terrible to endure.
5. (collective, countable) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
6. (countable, dated, slang, uncountable) Something remarkable or impressive.
7. (countable, nonstandard, uncountable) a murderer

Verb

1. To illegally kill (a person or persons) with intent, especially with predetermination
2. (colloquial, excessive, figuratively, transitive) To defeat decisively.
3. (colloquial, excessive, figuratively) To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
4. To botch or mangle.
5. (British, colloquial, figuratively) To devour, ravish.

Synonyms

kill

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slaughter

killing

slay

assassinate

homicide

assassination

massacre

slaying

put to death

carnage

destroy

do in

bump off

hit

dispatch

execute

crime

remove

bloodshed

mangle

eliminate

waste

mutilate

off

murderer

polish off

annihilate

injure

harm

butchery

butcher

manslaughter

behead

turn off

do to death

ruin

mar

liquidate

finish off

blood

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blight

execution

electrocute

despatch

destruction

cut down

decimate

building

bed

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Translations

Mord

meurtre

asesinar

assassinare

asesinato

assassinio

vermoorden

assassinat

assassiner

uccidere

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ermorden

moord

omicidio

töten

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assassinar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmɜːdə(ɹ)/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: murder

Inherited from Old English: morþor

Cognate with Old English: myrþra

Cognate with Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌸𐍂

Cognate with Old High German: mord

Cognate with Old Norse: morð

Cognate with Old English: myrþrian

Cognate with Middle English: -

Cognate with Anglo-Norman: murdre

Cognate with Old French: murdre

Cognate with Frankish: *morþr

In summary

From Middle English murder, murdre, mourdre, alteration of earlier murthre (“murder”) (see murther), from Old English morþor (“secret slaying, unlawful killing”) and Old English myrþra (“murder, homicide”), both from Proto-West Germanic *morþr, from Proto-Germanic *murþrą (“death, killing, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tro- (“killing”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *mor-, *mr̥- (“to die”). Akin to Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌸𐍂 (maurþr, “murder”), Old High German mord (“murder”), Old Norse morð (“murder”), Old English myrþrian (“to murder”) and morþ.
The -d- in the Middle English form may have been influenced in part by Anglo-Norman murdre, from Old French murdre, from Medieval Latin murdrum (whence the English doublet of murdrum), from Frankish *morþr, *murþr (“murder”), from the same Germanic root, though this may also have been wholly the result of internal development (compare burden, from burthen).
(crows): Attested at least since 1475.

Sentences

Their motives for murder vary .

The detective untangles a web of robberies , lies and murder .