The meaning of Murder

noun

Extreme physical or mental suffering.

Usage examples:

He crashed to the ground in agony

noun

Extreme physical or mental pain or suffering, or a period of such suffering

Usage examples:

[ u ] they put her on painkillers, but they didn’t do enough, and she was in agony.

verb

Murder (an important person) for political or religious reasons.

Usage examples:

The organization's leader had been assassinated four months before the coup

verb

To murder a famous or important person, esp. for political reasons or in exchange for money

Usage examples:

President kennedy was assassinated in dallas, texas, in 1963., the assassination of john lennon

noun

The action of assassinating someone.

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A failed assassination attempt

noun

A person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop.

Usage examples:

Markets often have butchers or cooked meat shops that specialize in the head and trotters, that is,…

verb

Slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food.

Usage examples:

A ban on butchering downer cows - animals that stagger, can't walk, or exhibit other signs of bse-w…

adjective

Having an appearance or other qualities of a type traditionally seen as masculine.

Usage examples:

A butch woman in a baseball cap

noun

The work of slaughtering animals and preparing them for sale as meat.

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If women were in the encampment they would be segregated and would prepare the meal, although slaug…

verb

Send off to a destination or for a purpose.

Usage examples:

He dispatched messages back to base

noun

The sending of someone or something to a destination or for a purpose.

Usage examples:

A resolution authorizing the dispatch of a peacekeeping force

verb

To send someone or something to a place for a particular purpose

Usage examples:

Within seconds the university police can identify the exact origin of the alarm and dispatch office…

verb

Completely remove or get rid of (something).

Usage examples:

A policy that would eliminate inflation

verb

To remove or take away something

Usage examples:

You can never totally eliminate the possibility of human error., arts programs face elimination in …

verb

To completely remove something that is not wanted or needed

Usage examples:

The problem we confront today is there is no one thing that can eliminate our dependency on petrole…

verb

Put (a plan, order, or course of action) into effect.

Usage examples:

The corporation executed a series of financial deals

verb

To do or perform something planned

Usage examples:

Now that we have approval, we can go ahead and execute the plan.

verb

To do or perform something in a planned way

Usage examples:

Local authority officials will check that the work is being executed according to the plans submitt…

noun

The carrying out of a plan, order, or course of action.

Usage examples:

He was fascinated by the entire operation and its execution

noun

The act of doing or performing something in a planned way

Usage examples:

The guitarist’s execution of the ballad was superb., [ u ] execution is still a penalty for murder.

noun

The act of doing or performing something in a planned way

Usage examples:

Effective operations managers require advanced skills in design, planning, and execution., the exec…

noun

Killing, especially of a whole group of people or animals.

Usage examples:

The near extermination of the buffalo herds

noun

The act of killing all the animals or people in a particular place or of a particular type

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International measures have been taken to prevent the extermination of the whale., prairie dogs hav…

noun

The killing of one's son or daughter.

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Maternal filicide

noun

The crime of killing your child or your children, or a case of this

Usage examples:

Many psychiatry books have been written on filicide, in which the victim's killer is the mother or …

noun

The killing of one's brother or sister.

Usage examples:

Cain justifies his fratricide with lethal logic

noun

The crime of murdering your brother, or killing members of your own group or country

noun

A place regarded in various religions as a spiritual realm of evil and suffering, often traditionally depicted as a place of perpetual fire beneath the earth where the wicked are punished after death.

Usage examples:

Irreligious children were assumed to have passed straight to the eternal fires of hell

exclamation

Used for emphasis or to express anger, contempt, or surprise.

Usage examples:

Oh, hell—where will this all end?

noun

(in some religions) the place where some people are believed to go after death to be punished forever for the bad things they have done

Usage examples:

Holidays are hell for me., we went through hell during the flood (= had an extremely bad experience…

noun

The killing of one person by another.

Usage examples:

He was charged with homicide

noun

The crime of killing a person; murder

Usage examples:

[ u ] he was convicted of homicide.

noun

The crime of a mother killing her child within a year of birth.

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Cases of infanticide often involve extreme emotional disturbance

noun

The crime of killing a child

verb

Cause the death of (a person, animal, or other living thing).

Usage examples:

Her father was killed in a car crash

noun

An act of killing, especially of one animal by another.

Usage examples:

A lion has made a kill

noun

(in place names, especially in new york, new jersey, and pennsylvania) a stream, creek, or tributary.

Usage examples:

Kill van kull

noun

An act of causing death, especially deliberately.

Usage examples:

The community was shocked by the brutal killings

adjective

Causing death.

Usage examples:

A killing disease

verb

Cause the death of (a person, animal, or other living thing).

Usage examples:

Her father was killed in a car crash

verb

Wind up the affairs of (a business) by ascertaining liabilities and apportioning assets.

Usage examples:

If the company was liquidated, there would be enough funds released to honour the debts

verb

To sell your investments or property to make them available in the form of money

Usage examples:

Investors have started to liquidate their mutual funds., the company was forced into liquidation.

verb

If a business liquidates or is liquidated, it is closed so that its assets can be sold to pay its debts

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The only way for management to return value to shareholders in the short term is to liquidate the c…

noun

The process of liquidating a business.

Usage examples:

The company went into liquidation

noun

A situation in which a company stops operating and sells all its assets in order to pay its debts

Usage examples:

Go into liquidation after three years of heavy losses the company went into liquidation with debts …

noun

The crime of killing a human being without malice aforethought, or in circumstances not amounting to murder.

Usage examples:

The defendant was convicted of manslaughter

noun

The crime of killing someone unintentionally or without having planned to do it

Usage examples:

He was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to two years in prison.

noun

An indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of many people.

Usage examples:

The attack was described as a cold-blooded massacre

verb

Deliberately and brutally kill (many people).

Usage examples:

Thousands were brutally massacred by soldiers

noun

The killing of a large number of people, esp. people who are not involved in any fighting or have no way of defending themselves

Usage examples:

Guerrilla troops are thought to have massacred the entire village.

noun

The killing of one's mother.

Usage examples:

A man suspected of matricide

noun

A crime in which a person kills their mother

noun

A state or feeling of great physical or mental distress or discomfort.

Usage examples:

A man who had brought her nothing but misery

noun

Great unhappiness

Usage examples:

[ u ] with the rice harvest, hope is sprouting amid the misery.

verb

Make (something) ineffective by applying an opposite force or effect.

Usage examples:

Impatience at his frailty began to neutralize her fear

verb

To produce an effect that removes the effect of something else

Usage examples:

Raising the sales tax will neutralize the tax cut., acid in soil can be neutralized.

noun

The killing of a parent or other near relative.

Usage examples:

The work ends on a heart-stopping note: a man and woman step forward and read names of those wrongl…

noun

The crime of murdering a close relation, especially a parent

noun

The killing of one's father.

Usage examples:

Infanticide, patricide, suicide, gender bias, and substance abuse - are all to be found in various …

noun

The crime of killing your own father

verb

Kill (animals) for food.

Usage examples:

At present the abattoir is slaughtering animals for the domestic market

noun

The killing of animals for food.

Usage examples:

Thousands of calves were exported to the continent for slaughter

noun

The killing of animals for their meat, or the killing of large numbers of animals in a cruel manner

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We must find ways of reducing the slaughter on the highways (= deaths of many people in car acciden…

noun

The killing of one's sister.

Usage examples:

The most serious form of sibling abuse is fratricide and sororicide.

noun

The action or practice of inflicting severe pain or suffering on someone as a punishment or in order to force them to do or say something.

Usage examples:

The torture of political prisoners

verb

Inflict severe pain or suffering on.

Usage examples:

Most of the victims had been brutally tortured

noun

An injury or severe mental pain

Usage examples:

[ c ] all drivers suffer the tortures of traffic and bad weather., [ u ] the museum has many exampl…

noun

The killing of one's wife.

Usage examples:

Not only did he never commit uxoricide, he never hit his wife.

noun

The crime of murdering your wife

Usage examples:

Younger women, relative to older women, are at higher risk of uxoricide - being murdered by their h…