What is murder?
What is murder?
- The unlawful killing of one human by another, especially with premeditated malice.
- Slang Something that is very uncomfortable, difficult, or hazardous: The rush hour traffic is murder.
- A flock of crows. See Synonyms at flock1.
- To kill (another human) unlawfully.
- To kill brutally or inhumanly.
- To put an end to; destroy: murdered their chances.
- To spoil by ineptness; mutilate: a speech that murdered the English language.
- Slang To defeat decisively; trounce.
- To commit murder.
- get away with murder Informal To escape punishment for or detection of an egregiously blameworthy act.
- murder will out Secrets or misdeeds will eventually be disclosed.