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(historical) premeditated murder
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(euphemistic) One's death.
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(rare) One who kills many people; a murderer who surpasses the profile of a normal serial killer.
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The murder of a person, especially for political reasons or for personal gain.
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(rare) One who kills or murders one's brother; a fratricide
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An act of murder of a particular quality.
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(law, historical) The killing of another in self-defence upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter.
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An incident in which someone shoots multiple people at a school.
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(figuratively) The subject of an experiment.
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Homicide which is culpable but does not rise to the level of murder; unlawful killing of a human being which does not constitute murder.
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(rare) A suicide note; a message written prior to a suicide attempt.
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An armed group that carries out clandestine killings.
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(US, derogatory) One who favours the rationing of healthcare in the United States.
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One who peddles death; a murderer of many.
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(obsolete) An executioner; a headsman or hangman.
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(strictly) The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.
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A bureaucrat, etc. who indirectly assists in genocide or other killing by performing clerical tasks.
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The abandonment of a place to the violence of soldiers.
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(law, chiefly US, Canada) An act that constitutes the crime of first-degree murder.
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A person, weapon, etc., who or which kills a god.
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A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
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(New Zealand, chiefly attributive) The slaughter of one's own animals on one's own property.
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(African-American Vernacular, slang) The killing of one's friends through betrayal or deception.
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(countable, uncountable, crime) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
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One who commits homicide.
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(euphemistic, UK, Canada) A typically Middle Eastern and South Asian cultural practice whereby a family member, usually female, is murdered by other family members, the act being justified as retribution for a (usually sexual) slight upon the family's honour.
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Synonym of suicide burn.
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The killing of one or more human beings as part of a religious ritual.
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The act of murder or killing.
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(informal) The Jonestown massacre itself.
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(law) A homicide that is allowed by law because there is a good reason for it (such as self-defense).
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A number of murders in a short span of time; a rampage.
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A murderer; an assassin.
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(euphemistic) Murder of dehumanized victims by a regime (and possibly its allies).
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(archaic) The act of killing a victim for sacrifice.
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(rare, obsolete) The slaughter of magi or priests.
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One who kills a human being.
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(obsolete) murder; homicide
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(obsolete) Manslaughter.
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(obsolete) The slaying of a human being.
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(law) Someone who commits manslaughter.
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Of, or pertaining to, manslaughter.
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One who commits homicide or manslaughter
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The killing of a large number of people over a short period of time.
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Someone who commits a mass murder.
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(crime) The shooting of multiple people over a short period of time, particularly when there are many victims and/or the victims are chosen indiscriminately.
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(UK, politics, humorous) The abandonment of potentially useful measures at the end of a session in the House of Commons, since there is no time to pass them.
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(rare) One who commits a massacre.
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The killing of multiple people; mass murder or serial killing.
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Multiple murders, especially when committed by a single killer.
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A person who commits multiple murders.
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(countable, collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
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A party game, played in a darkened room, in which a designated "murderer" eliminates other players, who must try to identify which player is the murderer.
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(Internet slang, humorous) An alligator or crocodile.
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(games) A game in which one or more players are tasked with killing off all other players, who in turn must identify the murderers and vote them out or otherwise remove them from the game.
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(US, colloquial) murder in the first degree.
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A weapon used to commit a murder.
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Of or pertaining to a murder-for-hire or contract killing.
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Items associated with a murderer, regarded as collectibles.
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A person who commits murder.
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Pronunciation spelling of murdering.
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A writer of murder stories.
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Alternative form of Murderapolis [(US, slang, derogatory) The city of Minneapolis during its crime wave of the 1990s, when many homicides took place there.]
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(UK, historical) A secret killing, distinguished from simple homicide in that the victim and the killer are unknown.
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A murder in which organs or other body parts are harvested for the production of traditional medicine
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Of or relating to mutilation.
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Alternative letter-case form of neknomination [(slang) An online drinking game, typically involving a person uploading a video of themselves drinking a pint of an alcoholic beverage (most commonly beer) in one gulp, then nominating two or more others to do the same.]
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A killing; the act of killing.
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An antisemitic hate crime with a large death toll, irrespective of the number of perpetrators.
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(slang, derogatory, New Zealand politics) The period of free-market economic reform conducted during the first term of the fourth National government in New Zealand, from 1990 to 1993.
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(law, chiefly US, Canada) The criminal offence of murder in a form defined as less serious than first-degree murder; the precise distinction may vary by jurisdiction but typically involves second-degree murder being intentional but not premeditated.
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A person who commits multiple (more than two) murders, especially similar ones with no obvious motive over a period of time with a "cooling-off" period between each murder.
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(rare) The act of coaxing someone, usually through insult, into initiating a swordsman's duel, and subsequently killing that person with superior skill so as to commit legal murder.
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A murderer who kills two or more victims in a short time in multiple locations.
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(historical) A massacre of French Huguenots in 1572 by a Roman Catholic mob.
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(US, law) Murder without intent but during a felony.
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(extremely rare, obsolete) The act of killing; slaughter or massacre.
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criminal homicide of a human being; manslaughter or murder or infanticide.
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(transitive) To drain the resources or life force of.
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(rare) The destruction of one-twentieth of something; especially, the killing or putting to death of every twentieth person, especially by lot.
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