murder

  • 41murder — 1. noun 1) a brutal murder Syn: killing, homicide, assassination, liquidation, extermination, execution, slaughter, butchery, massacre; manslaughter; literary slaying 2) informal driving there was murder Syn …

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  • 42murder — [OE] The ultimate source of murder is the Indo European base *mor , *mr ‘die’ (source also of English mortal). Its extension *mrt produced a prehistoric Germanic *mortam (source of German, Swedish, and Danish mord and Dutch moord ‘murder’) and… …

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  • 43murder — n 1. manslaughter, slaying, killing, (in India) thuggee, bloody or foul killing or slaying, assassination, Sl. hit, dispatch, shooting; strangulation, strangling, choking, garotte, garotting, throttling; lynching, hanging, Euph. necktie party;… …

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  • 44murder — 1. noun a brutal murder Syn: killing, homicide, assassination, extermination, execution, slaughter, butchery, massacre, manslaughter; literary slaying 2. verb someone tried to murder him Syn: kill, put/do to death, assassinate …

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  • 45murder —   Pepehi kanaka, kā make loa.    ♦ His murder (of someone else), kāna make.    ♦ His murder (of himself), kona make …

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  • 46murder — see murder will out killing no murder …

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  • 47murder — See: SCREAM BLOODY MURDER …

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  • 48murder — See: SCREAM BLOODY MURDER …

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  • 49murder — See homicide. See homicide, manslaughter, murder …

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  • 50murder — Synonyms and related words: abate, abolish, annihilate, asphyxiate, assassinate, assassination, be all thumbs, behead, blood, bloodshed, bloody murder, blot out, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, boggle, botch, bumble …

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