murder - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being

Synonyms

• execution
• murder
• slaying

More generic

• homicide

More specific

• assassination
• bloodshed
• butchery
• carnage
• contract killing
• dry-gulching
• elimination
• filicide
• fratricide
• gore
• hit
• infanticide
• liquidation
• lynching
• mariticide
• mass murder
• massacre
• parricide
• regicide
• shoot-down
• slaughter
• thuggee
• tyrannicide
• uxoricide

Verb

alter so as to make unrecognizable

Synonyms

• mangle
• murder
• mutilate

More generic

• distort
• falsify
• garble
• warp

Verb

kill intentionally and with premeditation

Synonyms

• bump off
• dispatch
• hit
• murder
• off
• polish off
• remove
• slay

More generic

• kill

More specific

• burke
• execute

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