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English noun: murder | |||
| 1. | murder (act) unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being | ||
| Synonyms | execution, slaying | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | homicide | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | assassination, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, contract killing, dry-gulching, elimination, filicide, fratricide, gore, hit, infanticide, liquidation, lynching, mariticide, mass murder, massacre, parricide, regicide, shoot-down, slaughter, thuggee, tyrannicide, uxoricide | ||
English verb: murder | |||
| 1. | murder (social) kill intentionally and with premeditation | ||
| Samples | The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered. | ||
| Examples | They want to murder the prisoners | ||
| Synonyms | bump off, dispatch, hit, off, polish off, remove, slay | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | kill | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | burke, execute | ||
| 2. | murder (change) alter so as to make unrecognizable | ||
| Samples | The tourists murdered the French language. | ||
| Synonyms | mangle, mutilate | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | distort, falsify, garble, warp | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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