murder

The crime of killing a person unlawfully, especially with predetermination.

The defendant was charged with murder.

One of the most urgent tasks facing me after 1 assumed office was to assure the country that everything possible was being done to uncover the truth surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy. John Kennedy had been murdered, and a troubled, puzzled, and outraged nation wanted to know the facts.

The crime of killing a person unlawfully, especially with predetermination.

The act of killing a person (or sometimes another being) unlawfully, especially with predetermination

There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone.

The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.

Something terrible to endure.

This headache is murder.

A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.

For his part, Melchior was growing unhappy with the murder of crows. They had been patiently following Arthur for hours, trailing him from town to country.

Without the murder of crows roosting in its branches, Nevermore Tree looked as bare as a skeleton.

To illegally kill (a person or persons) with intent, especially with predetermination

The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband.

In the meane time it chaunced, that Marcus Papyrius ſtroke one of the Galles on the heade with his ſtaffe, because he preſumed to ſtroke his bearde: with whiche iniurie the Gaulle beeing prouoked, ſlue Papyrius (as he ſate) with hys ſworde, and therewith the ſlaughter being begun with one, all the reſidue of thoſe auncient fatherly men as they ſat in theyr Chayres were ſlaine and cruelly murthered.

To defeat decisively.

Our team is going to murder them.

To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).

He's torn my best shirt. When I see him, I'll murder him!

To botch or mangle.

Dr. Caius, the Frenchman in the play, and Evans the Welshman, "Gallia et Guallia," succeed pretty well in their efforts to murder the language.

To devour, ravish.

I could murder a hamburger right now.

“Is that so? Well, I could murder a cup of tea,” said Auntie Flip.

A surname.