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| assassinate |
to murder for pay or for ideological reasons. [1/2 definitions] |
| blood |
murder or slaughter; bloodshed. [1/7 definitions] |
| blood money |
compensation paid to a murder victim's next of kin. [1/3 definitions] |
| bravo |
a villain, esp. a person hired to commit murder. [1/4 definitions] |
| bump off |
(slang) to murder. |
| burke |
to murder by suffocation, leaving the body unmarked and intact. [1/2 definitions] |
| butcher |
to murder viciously or indiscriminately. [1/6 definitions] |
| capital punishment |
punishment, of a crime such as murder, by death. |
| corpus delicti |
in a case of suspected murder, the body of the victim. [1/2 definitions] |
| detective story |
a fictional account of how a crime, usu. a murder, is solved by an amateur or professional detective. |
| ethnic cleansing |
the mass murder, incarceration, or forced emigration of members of an ethnic minority within a particular nation in order to establish an ethnically homogeneous population. |
| felon1 |
a person who has committed a serious crime, such as murder, rape, or burglary; one who has committed a felony. |
| felony |
any of several crimes, such as murder, rape, or burglary, defined by law as serious and punishable by a more stringent sentence than a misdemeanor. |
| first-degree murder |
a premeditated murder, carried out with deliberate intention to kill. |
| hatchet man |
(informal) a person hired by another to commit murder. [1/3 definitions] |
| homicide |
the act of killing another person; murder. [1/2 definitions] |
| Iago |
in Othello, the villain who causes Othello to suspect his wife of unfaithfulness and then murder her. |
| infanticide |
the murder of an infant. [1/2 definitions] |
| kill1 |
to murder. [1/10 definitions] |
| murder |
to commit murder. [1/5 definitions] |
| murderous |
guilty or capable of murder; likely or intending to commit murder. [2/3 definitions] |
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