| murder | |
| 1. n. An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human. | |
| There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone. | |
| 2. n. The crime of deliberate killing of another human. | |
| The defendant was charged with murder. | |
| 3. n. (legal, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human. | |
| 4. n. (used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure. | |
| This headache is murder. | |
| 5. n. (collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows. | |
| 6. v. To deliberately kill (a person or persons). | |
| The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband. | |
| 7. v. (transitive, sports) To defeat decisively. | |
| Our team is going to murder them. | |
| 8. v. To botch or mangle. | |
| 9. v. (figuratively, colloquial hyperbolic) To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody). | |
| He's torn my best shirt. When I see him, I'll murder him! | |
| 10. v. (figuratively, colloquial British) to devour, ravish. | |
| I could murder a hamburger right now. | |
