murder | Definition of murder

murder

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of murder

1 to put to death deliberately

those people made me so mad I felt like I wanted to murder them

Synonyms of murder

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]

Words Related to murder

blow away, shoot, shoot down

blot out, carry off, claim, cut down, destroy, fell, kill, smite, zap

butcher, massacre, mow (down), slaughter

annihilate, eliminate, eradicate, exterminate, wipe out

Phrases Synonymous with murder

Near Antonyms of murder

animate, raise, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revive

2 to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way

we listened in horror as she murdered our favorite song on stage

Synonyms of murder

blow, bobble, boggle, bollix (up), boot, botch, bugger (up), bumble, bungle, butcher, dub, flub, fluff, foozle, foul up, fumble, goof (up), louse up, mangle, mess (up), muck up, muff, screw up

Words Related to murder

blunder, gum (up), muddle, piffle

blemish, blight, damage, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, injure, mar, mutilate, ruin, spoil, vitiate

mishandle, mismanage

Near Antonyms of murder

ameliorate, better, enhance, help, improve, meliorate, rectify, refine, reform, remedy

doctor, fix, patch, recondition, renovate, repair, revamp