murder

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Murdered p. pr. & vb. n. Murdering. ] [ OE. mortheren, murtheren, AS. myrðrian; akin to OHG. murdiren, Goth. maúrþrjan. 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 ]

n. [ OE. morder, morther, AS. morðor, fr. morð murder; akin to D. moord, OS. morð, G., Dan., & Sw. mord, Icel. morð, Goth. maúrþr, OSlav. mrēti 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&rsdot_; to die, m&rsdot_;ta death. √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 ]

☞ Murder in the second degree, in most jurisdictions, is a malicious homicide committed without a specific intention to take life. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. killed unlawfully; as, the murdered woman. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who commits murder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Murder. [ Obs. ] Farfax. [ 1913 Webster ]