murder

1. n. The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide. Source: opted

2. n. To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n. Source: opted

3. n. To destroy; to put an end to. Source: opted

4. n. To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English. Source: opted

5. n. unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being Source: wordnet

6. v. kill intentionally and with premeditation Source: wordnet

7. v. alter so as to make unrecognizable Source: wordnet

8. 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. 1. To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n. 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. Source: webster

9. The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense oraforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide."Mordre will out." Chaucer.The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guiltof murder, as the offering them to idols had the guilt of idolatry.Locke.Slaughter grows murder when it goes too far. Dryden. Source: adambom

10. v:23/n:77 n. unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being v. kill intentionally and with premeditation Source: ecdict

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