murder

murder is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.
2. noun. To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.
3. noun. To destroy; to put an end to.
4. noun. To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.
5. noun. unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being

   Synonyms: execution, slaying

6. verb. alter so as to make unrecognizable

   "The tourists murdered the French language"

   Synonyms: mangle, mutilate

7. verb. kill intentionally and with premeditation

   "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"

   Synonyms: dispatch, hit, off, remove, slay

Synonyms

execution, slaying, mangle, mutilate, dispatch, hit, off, remove, slay

Common word forms

murders, murdered, murderer, murdering, murderous, murderment

Words from these letters

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