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murder
  1. (countable) An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.
  2. (uncountable) The crime of deliberate killing of another human.
  3. The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.
  4. (uncountable, used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.
  5. (countable, collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “I must emphasize we need to question this man regarding the attempted murder of a police officer in Leeds.”
      “It was murder having to constantly be at her beck and call.”
murdress
  1. Archaic form of murderess.
  2. A battlement with interstices for firing through.
murdermonger
  1. A professional murderer.
  2. A writer of murder stories.
murdrum
  1. (Britain, historical): a fine imposed by the Crown on a manor in which a murder had been committed.
murderabilia
  1. Items associated with a murderer, regarded as collectibles.
murderess
  1. A woman who commits murder. feminine of murderer
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Then from out of the middle of the crowd of lookers-on came a cry of murderess!”
      “And it is why Britain's most notorious murderess, Myra Hindley, who has just died, properly stayed in prison until the end.”
      “Body doubles mill in the hallway waiting to film a prison fight scene between a comely murderess and another woman.”
murderousness
  1. The state or condition of being murderous.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Their murderousness is neither greater nor less than that of the invaders with their napalm, machine-guns and high explosives.”
      “While atrocities were indeed committed by Japan in the course of its occupation of neighbouring countries, they are almost benign in comparison to the fratricidal murderousness which followed.”
      “Auden understood, with a clarity enforced by distance — he saw the shapes the blood was making, where up close one saw only the spill — that Europe's murderousness took a logical form.”
murderbot
  1. (rare) A robot that murders.
murderhood
  1. The state of being a murderer.
murderee
  1. A murder victim.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This was the murderee, a rich young man with narrow lips and the tussock hairstyle that had been fashionable five years before.”
murderer
  1. A person who commits murder.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The fact that he is a murderer merely adds to the background tension that crackles from the first page.”
      “I mean, doesn't that make them a conduit for the rantings of a mass murderer?”
      “The climax of the film is a justly celebrated sequence in which the camera glides over a crowded dancefloor to pick out the true murderer.”
murdering
murderment
  1. (obsolete) murder
murderments
  1. plural of murderment
murderbots
  1. plural of murderbot
murderings
murderesses
murderees
  1. plural of murderee
murderers
  1. plural of murderer
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It still doesn't change the fact that vicious, remorseless murderers are disgusting animals that deserve to rot behind bars.”
      “Some wanted retribution and called for the death penalty for convicted police murderers, while others lamented the decline of their communities.”
      “And should she thus be punished in the same way as the actual murderers, as an accessory to the crime?”
murdresses
  1. plural of murdress
murders
  1. plural of murder
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  3. Examples:
    1. “On the weekend before I left, Mark was arrested for the murders and his wife was arrested as an accessory after the fact.”
      “Sanctions are a salve for our conscience, not a serious attempt to stop the murders.”
      “The threat to foreign contractors has escalated in the past month following a series of kidnappings and murders.”
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