murder
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murder
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Synonyms & Antonyms for murder
Synonyms: Noun
agony, Gehenna, hell, horror, misery, nightmare, torment, torture
Synonyms: Verb
assassinate, bump off, croak [slang], dispatch, do in, execute, get, ice [slang], knock off, liquidate, neutralize, off [slang], put away, rub out, slay, snuff, take out, terminate, whack [slang]
Antonyms: Noun
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Examples of murder in a Sentence
Noun
She was accused of murder. the mass murder of civilians in wartime a string of unsolved murders Traffic is murder this time of day.Verb
He was arrested and accused of murdering his wife. His wife was found murdered. a dictator who is responsible for murdering thousands of innocent people The band murdered that song.
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
So where does the show go after Marina’s murder — why make a disappearance the center of it instead of continuing with Marina’s story line? — Kerensa Cadenas, EW.com, "How the Elite showrunners ‘root for’ but ‘plot for new ways to ruin’ the characters in season 2," 6 Sep. 2019 Jeffrey Deskovic was just 16 years old when he was arrested for the 1989 rape and murder of his classmate Angela Correa in Westchester County, New York. — NBC News, "Leading expert explains why you would falsely confess to a crime you did not commit," 6 Sep. 2019 In June, four people, including a prominent separatist commander, were charged in the Netherlands with murder over the plane’s downing. — Washington Post, "Key witness in MH17 downing released from jail in Ukraine," 6 Sep. 2019 Becton’s former second-in-command, Phyllis Redmond, left the office earlier this year and recently publicly criticized its handling of a 1980s murder defendant who was recently freed through a plea deal. — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, "Longtime prosecutor files political retaliation complaint against Contra Costa DA," 6 Sep. 2019 Angel Has Fallen, a third installment of Gerard Butler playing out All-American murder fantasies, is over two hours long, unlike its predecessors. — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, "Rise of the Super Sequel! As ‘It: Chapter Two’ Hits Theaters, Why Are Blockbusters Getting So Long?," 6 Sep. 2019 Not deterrence, in the face of studies that show no positive correlation between the death penalty and murder rates. — Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, "Witnessing a Federal Execution," 4 Sep. 2019 There had been several documentaries about her husband’s murder, but never a play. — Alex Marshall, New York Times, "A Murdered Spy’s Widow Relives Her Loss Onstage," 4 Sep. 2019 All that fodder fed into a 10-page script for a short film about a constable in neo-Victorian London visiting a faerie brothel where a murder has taken place. — Jennifer Ouellette, Wired, "Carnival Row brings a Richly Textured Fantasy World to Life," 4 Sep. 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
This prompted her father, T Maruthi Rao, to hire assassins to murder the husband, court records show, the Post reported. — Fox News, "Indian father ordered hitman to kill son-in-law for belonging to 'untouchable' caste: courts docs," 21 Aug. 2019 Netanyahu spoke at the Babi Yar site, a patchwork of ravines on the margins of the Ukrainian capital where Ukrainian auxiliary police took about 33,000 Jews to be murdered by German soldiers on Sept. 29 and 30, 1941. — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, "Netanyahu wades into the debate on Ukraine’s Holocaust record in commemoration speech," 20 Aug. 2019 Deputies say the 11-year-old was afraid his mother was going to be murdered, so the child used scissors to stab Karamanlis twice in the back protect her. — Ricky Pinela, orlandosentinel.com, "Florida child used scissors to stab man for assaulting mother: report," 19 Aug. 2019 One way to silence speech is to murder the speaker. — The Economist, "The global gag on free speech is tightening," 15 Aug. 2019 But on the ground, nobody ever seemed to consider the likelihood that games had driven Lanza to murder. — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, "Video-Game Violence Is Now a Partisan Issue," 5 Aug. 2019 Santos’s relatives were among more than 1,500 people across 50 countries to be murdered in retaliation for protecting land, water, forests and other natural resources between 2002 and 2017. — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, "Environmental Activists Have Higher Death Rates Than Some Soldiers," 5 Aug. 2019 In its sequel, The Dragon Republic, Rin is now on the run and seeking to murder the Empress who betrayed her country, while struggling with her addiction to opium and the commands of the Phoenix, a god who has incredible powers. — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, "10 new science fiction and fantasy novels to check out this August," 1 Aug. 2019 Or to lure him to Memphis, Tennessee, and murder him there. — CBS News, "Lorenzen Wright death: Surprise plea deal latest twist in the case of slain NBA star," 27 July 2019
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