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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Murder \Mur"der\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Murdered} (m[^u]r"d[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Murdering}.] [OE. mortheren, murtheren, AS. myr[eth]rian; akin to OHG. murdiren, Goth. ma['u]r[thorn]rjan. See {Murder}, noun]
1. To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See {Murder}, noun
2. To destroy; to put an end to.
[Canst thou] murder thy breath in middle of a word? --Shak.
3. To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.
Syn: To kill; assassinate; slay. See {Kill}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Murder \Mur"der\ (m[^u]r"d[~e]r), noun [OE. morder, morther, AS. mor[eth]or, fr. mor[eth] murder; akin to D. moord, OS. mor[eth], G., Dan., & Sw. mord, Icel. mor[eth], Goth. ma['u]r[thorn]r, OSlav. mr[=e]ti to die, Lith. mirti, W. marw dead, L. mors, mortis, death, mori, moriri, to die, Gr. broto's (for mroto's) mortal, 'a'mbrotos immortal, Skr. m[.r] to die, m[.r]ta death. [root]105. Cf. {Amaranth}, {Ambrosia}, {Mortal}.] The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide. ''Mordre will out.'' --Chaucer.
The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt of murder, as the offering them to idols had the guilt of idolatry. --Locke.
Slaughter grows murder when it goes too far. --Dryden.
Note: Murder in the second degree, in most jurisdictions, is a malicious homicide committed without a specific intention to take life. --Wharton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
murder
noun: unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being [syn: {slaying}, {execution}]
verb
1: kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: {slay}, {hit}, {dispatch}, {bump off}, {polish off}, {remove}]
2: alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language" [syn: {mangle}, {mutilate}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "murder": 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, bump off, bumping-off, bungle, butcher, butchery, carnage, commit a gaffe, cool, decapitate, decimation, destroy, do in, dust off, electrocute, eliminate, elimination, eradicate, eradication, execute, exterminate, extermination, extinguish, faux pas, finish, flounder, foul play, fratricide, fumble, garrote, genocide, get rid of, guillotine, hang, homicide, ice, infanticide, kill, killing, knock off, lay low, liquidate, liquidation, lumber, lynch, mangle, manslaughter, mar, massacre, matricide, miscue, muddle, muff, murdering, mutilate, parricide, patricide, play havoc with, polish off, purge, purging, put away, put down, put to death, regicide, removal, remove, root out, rub out, ruin, scrag, slaughter, slay, slaying, slip, smother, snuff out, sororicide, spoil, strangle, stumble, thuggee, thuggery, thuggism, trip, uproot, uxoricide, waste, wipe out, wiping out, wreck
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Murder Wilful murder was distinguished from accidental homicide, and was invariably visited with capital punishment (Num. 35:16, 18, 21, 31; Lev. 24:17). This law in its principle is founded on the fact of man's having been made in the likeness of God (Gen. 9:5, 6; John 8:44; 1 John 3:12, 15). The Mosiac law prohibited any compensation for murder or the reprieve of the murderer (Ex. 21:12, 14; Deut. 19:11, 13; 2 Sam. 17:25; 20:10). Two witnesses were required in any capital case (Num. 35:19-30; Deut. 17:6-12). If the murderer could not be discovered, the city nearest the scene of the murder was required to make expiation for the crime committed (Deut. 21:1-9). These offences also were to be punished with death, (1) striking a parent; (2) cursing a parent; (3) kidnapping (Ex. 21:15-17; Deut. 27:16).
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