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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :   [ easton ]

  Murder
     Wilful murder was distinguished from accidental homicide, and
     was invariably visited with capital punishment (Num. 35:16, 18,
     21, 31; Lev. 24:17). This law in its principle is founded on the
     fact of man's having been made in the likeness of God (Gen. 9:5,
     6; John 8:44; 1 John 3:12, 15). The Mosiac law prohibited any
     compensation for murder or the reprieve of the murderer (Ex.
     21:12, 14; Deut. 19:11, 13; 2 Sam. 17:25; 20:10). Two witnesses
     were required in any capital case (Num. 35:19-30; Deut.
     17:6-12). If the murderer could not be discovered, the city
     nearest the scene of the murder was required to make expiation
     for the crime committed (Deut. 21:1-9). These offences also were
     to be punished with death, (1) striking a parent; (2) cursing a
     parent; (3) kidnapping (Ex. 21:15-17; Deut. 27:16).
     

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Murder \Mur"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Murdered
     (m[^u]r"d[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Murdering.] [OE.
     mortheren, murtheren, AS. myr[eth]rian; akin to OHG.
     murdiren, Goth. ma['u]r[thorn]rjan. See Murder, n.]
     1. To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being)
        willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To destroy; to put an end to.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              [Canst thou] murder thy breath in middle of a word?
                                                    --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or
        cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: To kill; assassinate; slay. See Kill.
          [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Murder \Mur"der\ (m[^u]r"d[~e]r), n. [OE. morder, morther, AS.
     mor[eth]or, fr. mor[eth] murder; akin to D. moord, OS.
     mor[eth], G., Dan., & Sw. mord, Icel. mor[eth], Goth.
     ma['u]r[thorn]r, OSlav. mr[=e]ti to die, Lith. mirti, W. marw
     dead, L. mors, mortis, death, mori, moriri, to die, Gr.
     broto`s (for mroto`s) mortal, 'a`mbrotos immortal, Skr. m[.r]
     to die, m[.r]ta death. [root]105. Cf. Amaranth, Ambrosia,
     Mortal.]
     The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or
     aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful
     homicide. ``Mordre will out.'' --Chaucer.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The killing of their children had, in the account of
           God, the guilt of murder, as the offering them to idols
           had the guilt of idolatry.               --Locke.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Slaughter grows murder when it goes too far. --Dryden.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: Murder in the second degree, in most jurisdictions, is
           a malicious homicide committed without a specific
           intention to take life. --Wharton.
           [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Murder \Mur"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Murdered; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Murdering.] [OE. mortheren, murtheren, AS. myr?rian;
     akin to OHG. murdiren, Goth. ma['u]r?rjan. See Murder, n.]
     1. To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being)
        willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.
  
     2. To destroy; to put an end to.
  
              [Canst thou] murder thy breath in middle of a word?
                                                    --Shak.
  
     3. To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or
        cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.
  
     Syn: To kill; assassinate; slay. See Kill.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Murder \Mur"der\, n. [OE. morder, morther, AS. mor[eth]or, fr.
     mor[eth] murder; akin to D. moord, OS. mor[eth], G., Dan., &
     Sw. mord, Icel. mor[eth], Goth. ma['u]r[thorn]r, OSlav.
     mr[=e]ti to die, Lith. mirti, W. marw dead, L. mors, mortis,
     death, mori, moriri, to die, Gr. broto`s (for mroto`s)
     mortal, 'a`mbrotos immortal, Skr. m[.r] to die, m[.r]ta
     death. [root]105. Cf. Amaranth, Ambrosia, Mortal.]
     The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or
     aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful
     homicide. ``Mordre will out.'' --Chaucer.
  
           The killing of their children had, in the account of
           God, the guilt of murder, as the offering them to idols
           had the guilt of idolatry.               --Locke.
  
           Slaughter grows murder when it goes too far. --Dryden.
  
     Note: Murder in the second degree, in most jurisdictions, is
           a malicious homicide committed without a specific
           intention to take life. --Wharton.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  murder
       n : unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human
           being [syn: slaying, execution]
       v 1: kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss
            ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: slay, hit, dispatch,
             bump off, polish off, remove]
       2: alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered
          the French language" [syn: mangle, mutilate]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  murder
     Αγγλικά n.
     ο φόνος, το φονικό, η δολοφονία, η ανθρωποκτονία

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  murder
     n.
     (lb en uncountable) The crime of deliberately killing a person
  without moral justification.
     vb.
     1 To deliberately kill#Verb (a person or persons) without
  justification, especially with malice aforethought.
     2 (lb en transitive sports figuratively colloquial hyperbolic) To
  defeat#Verb decisively.
     3 (lb en figuratively colloquial hyperbolic) To kick ass or chew out
  (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
     4 To botch or mangle#Verb.

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  Murder
     n.
     (surname: en).

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  murder
     n.
     (lb en uncountable) The crime of deliberately killing a person
  without moral justification.
     vb.
     1 To deliberately kill#Verb (a person or persons) without
  justification, especially with malice aforethought.
     2 (lb en transitive sports figuratively colloquial hyperbolic) To
  defeat#Verb decisively.
     3 (lb en figuratively colloquial hyperbolic) To kick ass or chew out
  (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
     4 To botch or mangle#Verb.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  Murder
     n.
     (surname: en).

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  murder
     n.
     (lb en uncountable) The crime of deliberately killing a person
  without moral justification.
     vb.
     1 To deliberately kill#Verb (a person or persons) without
  justification, especially with malice aforethought.
     2 (lb en transitive sports figuratively colloquial hyperbolic) To
  defeat#Verb decisively.
     3 (lb en figuratively colloquial hyperbolic) To kick ass or chew out
  (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
     4 To botch or mangle#Verb.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  Murder
     n.
     (surname: en).

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  murder
     n.
     (lb en uncountable) The crime of deliberately killing a person
  without moral justification.
     vb.
     1 To deliberately kill#Verb (a person or persons) without
  justification, especially with malice aforethought.
     2 (lb en transitive sports figuratively colloquial hyperbolic) To
  defeat#Verb decisively.
     3 (lb en figuratively colloquial hyperbolic) To kick ass or chew out
  (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
     4 To botch or mangle#Verb.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  Murder
     n.
     (surname: en).

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  murder
     Englanti n.
     1 murha
     2 varisparvi
     Englanti vb.
     murhata

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  murder
     Engelska n.
     1 (tagg brottslighet juridik språk=en) mord, brottet eller handlingen
  att avsiktligt döda någon
     2 flock (av kråkor)
     Engelska vb.
     (tagg brottslighet juridik språk=en) mörda

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Murder /mˈɜːdə/
  القتل

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  murder //ˈmɜːdə(ɹ)// //ˈmɝ.dɚ// 
  уби́йство 2.
  an act of deliberate killing
   3.
  the crime of deliberate killing

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  murder /mˈɜːdə/ 
  vražda

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  murder /mˈɜːdə/ 
  zavraždit

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  murder /mˈɜːdə/ 
  vraždit

From Eurfa Saesneg, English-Welsh Eurfa/Freedict dictionary ver. 0.2.3 :   [ freedict:eng-cym ]

  murder /mˈɜːdə/ 
  llofruddio 

From Eurfa Saesneg, English-Welsh Eurfa/Freedict dictionary ver. 0.2.3 :   [ freedict:eng-cym ]

  murder /mˈɜːdə/ 
  mwrdro 

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  murder /mˈɜːdə/
  Mord  [jur.]
           Note: an jdm.
           Note: Straftatbestand
        "first degree murder"  - vorsätzlicher Mord, vorsätzliche Tötung
        "cover-up murder"  - Vertuschungsmord, Verdeckungsmord
        "murder of passion"  - Mord im Affekt
        "second degree murder"  - Mord im Affekt
        "murder of Jews"  - Judenmord
        "third degree murder"  - Totschlag
        "Detectives have launched a murder inquiry/investigation."  - Die Kripo ermittelt wegen Mordes.
        "The traffic was murder this morning."  - Der Verkehr heute früh war mörderisch / die Hölle.
        "It's murder doing the shopping on Saturdays."  - Samstags einkaufen zu gehen ist der (blanke) Horror.
        "Soft beds are murder on my back."  - Weiche Betten sind Gift für meinen Rücken.
        "She lets those children get away with murder."  - Sie lässt den Kindern alles durchgehen.
        "My daughter would scream/cry blue/bloody murder if you tried to put her to bed."  - Meine Tochter würde lauthals protestieren, wenn man versucht, sie zu Bett zu bringen.
        "The opposition will scream blue / bloody murder about/over the new regulations."  - Die Opposition wird wegen der neuen Regelungen Zeter und Mordio schreien.
   see: murders, premeditated murder, ritual murder, manslaughter, Murder will out.
  
           Note: of sb.
           Note: criminal offence

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  murder /mˈɜːdə/
  Mordfall 
     Synonyms: murder case, homicide case
  
   see: murders, murder cases, homicide cases
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  murder /mˈɜːdə/
  Schwarm  [ornith.]
           Note: Krähen
        "murder of crows"  - Schwarm Krähen, Krähenschwarm
   see: murders
  
           Note: of crows

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  murder /mˈɜːdə/
  Mordtat , Mord 
     Synonym: act of murder
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  murder /mˈɜːdə/
  
  φόνος, δολοφωνία, σκοτώνω

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  murder //ˈmɜːdə(ɹ)// //ˈmɝ.dɚ// 
  1. murha
  an act of deliberate killing
  2. parvi
  flock of crows
  3. murhaava
  terrible to endure

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  murder //ˈmɜːdə(ɹ)// //ˈmɝ.dɚ// 
  murhata
  deliberately kill

From English-French FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-fra ]

  murder /məːdər/
  assassiner, rectifier

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  murder /mˈɜːdə/ 
  1. हत्या
        "The police are treating his death as a case of murder."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  murder /mˈɜːdə/
  izvršiti ubojstvo, ubiti, ubojica, ubojstvo, umorstvo

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  murder /mˈɜːdə/
  gyilkosság

From English-Bahasa Indonesia FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-ind ]

  murder //ˈmɜːdə(ɹ)// //ˈmɝ.dɚ// 
  1. membunuh
  2. pembunuhan
  an act of deliberate killing

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  murder //ˈmɜːdə(ɹ)// //ˈmɝ.dɚ// 
  1. 殺人, 殺害, 謀殺
  an act of deliberate killing
  2. 殺人罪
  the crime of deliberate killing

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  murder //ˈmɜːdə(ɹ)// //ˈmɝ.dɚ// 
  殺す, 殺害する
  deliberately kill

From English-Dutch FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-nld ]

  murder /məːdər/
  1. moorden, vermoorden
  2. moord

From English-Norsk FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-nor ]

  murder //ˈmɜːdə(ɹ)// //ˈmɝ.dɚ// 
  1. ta knekken på
  defeat decisively
  2. drepe
  express one’s anger at

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  murder /ˈmɜ:də/
  I.    morderstwo
  II.    mordować

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  murder /məːdər/
  1. assassinar
  2. assassínio

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  murder //ˈmɜːdə(ɹ)// //ˈmɝ.dɚ// 
  mord
  an act of deliberate killing

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  murder //ˈmɜːdə(ɹ)// //ˈmɝ.dɚ// 
  1. mörda
  deliberately kill
  2. sluka
  devour
  3. döda
  express one’s anger at

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  murder /mˈɜːdə/
  1. adam öldürme, cinayet
  2. (k. dili) baş belası
  3. katletmek, öldürmek, kasten öldürmek
  4. bozmak, harap etmek. murder a piece of music bir müzik parçasını berbat etmek. murder in the first degree kasten adam öldürme. Murder will out. Cinayet gizli kalmaz. Haksızlık meydana çıkar. get away with murder (k. dili) bir kötülüğün cezasını çekmemek. murderer  katil, cani, adam öldüren kimse. murderess  kadın katil. murderous  öldürücü, ölüm saçan, kanlı
  5. tehlikeli. murderously  öldürecek gibi.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈmɝdɝ/

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :   [ bouvier ]

  MURDER, crim. law. This, one of the most important crimes that can be 
  committed against individuals, has been variously defined. Hawkins defines 
  it to be the willful killing of any subject whatever, with malice 
  aforethought, whether the person slain shall be an Englishman or a 
  foreigner. B. 1, c. 13, s. 3. Russell says, murder is the killing of any 
  person under the king's peace, with malice prepense or aforethought, either 
  express or implied by law. 1 Rus. Cr. 421. And Sir Edward Coke, 3 Inst. 47, 
  defines or rather describes this offence to be, "when a person of sound 
  mind and discretion, unlawfully killeth any reasonable creature in being, 
  and under the king's peace, with malice aforethought either express or 
  implied." 
       2. This definition, which has been adopted by Blackstone, 4 Com. 195; 
  Chitty, 2 Cr. Law, 724; and others, has been severely and perhaps justly 
  criticised. What, it has been asked, are sound memory and understanding? 
  What has soundness of memory to do with the act; be it ever so imperfect, 
  how does it affect the guilt? If discretion is necessary, can the crime ever 
  be committed, for, is it not the highest indiscretion in a man to take the 
  life of another, and thereby expose his own? If the person killed be an 
  idiot or a new born infant, is he a reasonable creature? Who is in the 
  king's peace? What is malice aforethought? Can there be any malice 
  afterthought? Livingst. Syst. of Pen. Law; 186. 
       3. According to Coke's definition there must be, 1st. Sound mind and 
  memory in the agent. By this is understood there must be a will, (q.v.) and 
  legal discretion. (q.v.) 2. An actual killing, but it is not necessary that 
  it should be caused by direct violence; it is sufficient if the acts done 
  apparently endanger. life, and eventually fatal. Hawk. b. 1, c. 31, s. 4; 1 
  Hale, P. C. 431; 1 Ashm. R. 289; 9 Car. & Payne, 356; S. C. 38 E. C. L. R. 
  152; 2 Palm. 545. 3. The party killed must have been a reasonable being, 
  alive and in the king's peace. To constitute a birth, so as to make the 
  killing of a child murder, the whole body must be detached from that of the 
  mother; but if it has come wholly forth, but is still connected by the 
  umbilical chord, such killing will be murder. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1722, note. 
  Foeticide (q.v.) would not be such a killing; he must have been in rerum 
  natura. 4. Malice, either express or implied. It is this circumstance which 
  distinguishes murder from every description of homicide. Vide art. Malice. 
       4. In some of the states, by legislative enactments, murder has been 
  divided into degrees. In Pennsylvania, the act of April 22, 1794, 3 Smith's 
  Laws, 186, makes "all murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, 
  or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate, and 
  premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or 
  attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be 
  deemed murder of the first degree; and all other kinds of murder shall be 
  deemed murder of the second degree; and the jury before whom any person 
  indicted for murder shall be tried, shall, if they find the person guilty 
  thereof, ascertain in their verdict, whether it be murder of the first or 
  second degree; but if such person shall be convicted by confession, the 
  court shall proceed by examination of witnesses, to determine the degree of 
  the crime, and give sentence accordingly. Many decisions have been made 
  under this act to which the reader is referred: see Whart. Dig. Criminal 
  Law, h.t. 
       5. The legislature of Tennessee has adopted the same distinction in the 
  very words of the act of Pennsylvania just cited. Act of 1829, 1 Term. Laws, 
  Dig. 244. Vide 3 Yerg. R. 283; 5 Yerg. R. 340. 
       6. Virginia has adopted the same distinction. 6 Rand. R. 721. Vide, 
  generally, Bac. Ab. h.t.; 15 Vin. Ab. 500; Com. Dig. Justices, M 1, 2; 
  Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; Hawk. Index, h.t.; 1 Russ. Cr. b. 3, c. 1; Rosc. 
  Cr. Ev. h.t. Hale, P. C. Index, h.t.; 4 Bl. Com. 195; 2 Swift's Syst. 
  Index, h.t.; 2 Swift's Dig. Index, h.t.; American Digests, h.t.; 
  Wheeler's C. C. Index, h.t.; Stark. Ev. Index, h.t.; Chit. Cr. Law, Index, 
  h.t.; New York Rev. Stat. part 4, c. 1, t. 1 and 2. 
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :   [ bouvier ]

  MURDER, pleadings. In an indictment for murder, it must be charged that the 
  prisoner "did kill and murder" the deceased, and unless the word murder be 
  introduced into the charge, the indictment will be taken to charge 
  manslaughter only. Foster, 424; Yelv. 205; 1 Chit. Cr. Law, *243, and the 
  authorities and cases there cited. 
  
  

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  110 Moby Thesaurus words for "murder":
     abate, abolish, annihilate, asphyxiate, assassinate, assassination,
     be all thumbs, behead, blood, bloodshed, bloody murder, blot out,
     blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon,
     boggle, botch, bumble, bump off, bumping-off, bungle, butcher,
     butchery, carnage, commit a gaffe, cool, decapitate, decimation,
     destroy, do in, dust off, electrocute, eliminate, elimination,
     eradicate, eradication, execute, exterminate, extermination,
     extinguish, faux pas, finish, flounder, foul play, fratricide,
     fumble, garrote, genocide, get rid of, guillotine, hang, homicide,
     ice, infanticide, kill, killing, knock off, lay low, liquidate,
     liquidation, lumber, lynch, mangle, manslaughter, mar, massacre,
     matricide, miscue, muddle, muff, murdering, mutilate, parricide,
     patricide, play havoc with, polish off, purge, purging, put away,
     put down, put to death, regicide, removal, remove, root out,
     rub out, ruin, scrag, slaughter, slay, slaying, slip, smother,
     snuff out, sororicide, spoil, strangle, stumble, thuggee, thuggery,
     thuggism, trip, uproot, uxoricide, waste, wipe out, wiping out,
     wreck
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  n. 谋杀;
  v. 谋杀,损毁,破坏;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 谋杀
     vt. 谋杀,损毁,破坏
     vi. 犯杀人罪

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