murder

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; asphyxiation, suffocation, smothering, burking; stabbing, knifing, running through, impalement; decapitation, decollation, beheading; lapidation, stoning; drowning, burning, poisoning; homicide, patricide, matricide, parricide, fratricide, sororicide, uxoricide, infanticide, regicide, vaticide.

2. butchery, massacre, carnage, slaughter, blood bath, bloodshed, effusion of blood, fusillade of blood; wholesale or general slaughter, mass-killing, mass-slaying, mass-homicide, mass-execution, mass-destruction; decimation, liquidation, blotting or wiping out, genocide, pogrom, holocaust, Euph., Hist.Final Solution, extermination, obliteration, organized murder, elimination.

3. murder will out

exposure, expose", exposition, revelation, disclosure, divulgence, divulgation, unfolding, unmasking, laying open, laying bare, muckraking, publication; discovery, detection.

v

4. kill, slay, assassinate, poison, do to death, liquidate, blot or wipe out, put an end to, get rid of, put away, put out of the way, silence; carry off, remove, dispatch, finish, finish off, do for, fix, settle, lay out, lay low, Inf. put the kibosh on; All Sl. off, hit, zap, waste, croak, eighty six, snuff out, take off, rub out, bump off, knock off, polish off, give [s.o.] the works or the business; All Euph. send west, take for a ride, put [s.o.] out of his misery.

5. shoot, shoot down, riddle, Inf. blow [s.o.'s] brains out, Inf. pump [s.o.] full of lead; club, beat, batter, pound, hammer, brain, blackjack, Inf. knock or beat [s.o.'s] brains out; choke, strangle, throttle, stifle, garotte, Sl. scrag; knife, stab, cut [s.o.'s] throat, jugulate, cut, cut down, bayonet, pierce, run through, put to the sword, impale, spear, lance, Euph. let the daylight in; smother, suffocate, asphyxiate, burke; execute, put to death, behead, decapitate, guillotine, decollate, hang, gibbet, lynch, Sl. string up, Sl. stretch, stone, lapidate, burn, burn at the stake, drown.

6. slaughter, butcher, cut to pieces, hew, hack, hack to pieces, chop, chop to pieces, dismember, draw and quarter, tear limb from limb, disembowel, mutilate, savage, maul, shed or spill blood; wade in blood, run amuck, go berserk, give no quarter, show no mercy.

7. annihilate, exterminate, obliterate, discreate, reduce to nothing, destroy totally, eradicate, extirpate, extinguish; massacre, decimate, destroy a great number.

8.All Fig. abuse, mangle, butcher, slaughter, mutilate, maul; mispronounce, misuse, Rare or Obs. solecize; mar, spoil, ruin, damage, impair, hurt, harm.