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Definition: Murder |
MurderNoun1. Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being. Verb1. Kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered". 2. "The tourists murdered the French language". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "murder" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Bible | 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). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To see murder committed in your dreams, foretells much sorrow arising from the misdeeds of others. Affair will assume dulness. Violent deaths will come under your notice. If you commit murder, it signifies that you are engaging in some dishonorable adventure, which will leave a stigma upon your name. To dream that you are murdered, foretells that enemies are secretly working to overthrow you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Military & Defense | Homicide committed in a particularly unscrupulous manner, in which the motive, the objective or the method of commission is particularly depraved. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | MURDER. He looked like God's revenge against murder; he looked angrily. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Please note: Wikipedia does not give legal advice.Murder is the crime of intentionally causing the death of another human being, without lawful excuse. When an illegal death was not caused intentionally, but was caused by recklessness or negligence (or there is some defense, such as diminished capacity), the crime committed is manslaughter or criminally negligent homicide, which are considered to be less serious than murder. Manslaughter is often broken into two categories: involuntary manslaughter and voluntary manslaughter.
A difficult issue in defining murder is what counts as causing death. It is impossible to give a precise definition of this, but some legal principles have been developed to help. For example, many common law jurisdictions abide by the year and a day rule, which provides that one is to be held responsible for a person's death only if they die within a year and a day of the act. Thus, if you seriously injured someone, and they died from their injuries within a year and a day, you would be guilty of murder; but you would not be guilty if they died from their injuries after a year and a day had passed.
It is not murder to kill someone with lawful excuse; lawful excuses include killing enemy combatants in time of war (but not after they surrendered), killing a person who poses an immediate threat to the lives of ones self or others (i.e., in self-defence), and executing a person in accordance with a sentence of death (in those jurisdictions which use capital punishment). Sometimes extreme provocation or duress can justify killing another as well. These cases of killing are called justifiable homicide.
Under English law (and the law of other countries, such as Australia, which pay close heed to the decisions of British courts), it is murder to kill another human being for food, even if without doing so one would die of starvation. This originated in a case of three shipwrecked sailors cast adrift off the coast of South Africa in the 1920s; two of the sailors conspired to kill the other sailor, and having killed him ate his flesh to survive.
Most countries allow conditions that "affect the balance of the mind" to be regarded as mitigating circumstances against murder. This means that a person may be found guilty of "manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility" rather than murder, if it can be proved that they were suffering from a condition that affected their judgement at the time. Depression, Post-traumatic stress disorder and medication side-effects are examples of conditions that may be taken into account when assessing responsibility.
Also, some countries, such as Canada, Italy, the United Kingdom and Australia, allow post-partum depression, or 'baby-blues', as a defense against murder of a child by a mother, provided that a child is less than a year old.
Canada
Canada has about 550 murders per year, a number that is steadily decreasing. This is equivalent to numbers in most of the western world, except the U.S. which has triple the number per capita. The main methods of murder in Canada are shootings (30%), stabbings (30%), and beatings (22%).
Canada has four types of crime that can be considered murder:
For every murder in Canada there are about 1.5 attempted murders.
- first degree murder
- second degree murder
- manslaughter
- infanticide
About one in three Canadian murders are committed by a family member. One in eight is gang related. About 80% of murderers in Canada are caught within a year.
(All statistics are from the 2001 census)
The United States
In the United States, murder, or "homicide", is normally a state crime, and a murder suspect will be arrested and held by local officials and his trial will occur in a state court. Most murders are not federal crimes, in which the trial would occur in a federal court.The term First-degree murder or murder in the first degree refers to premeditated murder, or murder which occurs after some degree of reflection by the murderer. This reflection can be years or less than a second. Second-degree murder or voluntary manslaughter refers to murder which occurs after "adequate provocation." Third-degree murder, also known as manslaughter, occurs without the specific intent to kill, but usually after an act of criminal negligence or some other act resulting in a person's death.
Despite the large amount of attention that the media in the United States devote to murder trials -- in news programming, movies, theater, and television dramas alike -- fewer people are murdered each year in the United States than die from suicide, from motor vehicle injuries, or from AIDS.
Felony Murder Statutes
Many jurisdictions in the United States have also adopted felony murder statutes, according to which anyone who commits a serious crime (a felony), during which a person dies, is guilty of murder. This applies even if one is not actually responsible for the person's death; for example, a driver for an armed robbery can be convicted of murder if one of the robbers killed someone in the process of the robbery, even though the driver was not (directly, at least) responsible for this person's death.
Capital Murder
Capital murder is murder which is punishable by death. 38 states in the United States, and the federal government itself, have laws allowing capital punishment for this crime. Depending on the state, a murder may qualify as "capital murder" if (a) the person murdered was of a special class, such as a police officer; (b) "special circumstances" occurred in the crime, such as multiple murder, the use of poison, or "lying in wait" in order to murder the victim. Capital murder is quite rare in the United States compared to other murder convictions, but it has generated tremendous public debate. See generally capital punishment.
Germany
In Germany the term mord (murder) is officially used for the killing of a human person
A killing which is not a murder may be either totschlag (manslaughter) or negligent killing. The penalty for mord is lifelong imprisonment (i.e. at least fifteen years), the penalty for totschlag five to fifteen years imprisonment.
- for murder desire, satisfaction of the sex impulse, greed or other low motives
- or insidiously or cruelly
- or by means dangerous to the public
- or to cover or aid another criminal offense
See also
- cannibalism
- child murder
- cult homicides
- human sacrifice
- infanticide
- list of massacres
- list of murdered people
- mass murderer
- serial killer
- spree killer
- crime fiction
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Murder."
Synonyms: MurderSynonyms: slaying (n), bump off (v), dispatch (v), hit (v), mangle (v), mutilate (v), polish off (v), remove (v), slay (v). (additional references) |
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Disclosure | Phrase: the murder is out; a light breaks in upon one; the scales fall from one's eyes; the eyes are opened. |
Killing | Verb: kill, put to death, slay, shed blood; murder, assassinate, butcher, slaughter, victimize, immolate; massacre; take away life, deprive of life; make away with, put an end to; despatch, dispatch; burke, settle, do for. |
Noun: killing. Verb: homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion; effusion of blood; blood, blood shed; gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery; battue. | |
Deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus; execution. (capital punishment); judicial murder; martyrdom. | |
Solecism | Verb: use bad grammar, faulty grammar; solecize, commit a solecism; murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English, break Priscian's head. |
Stammering | Mumble, mutter; maud, mauder; whisper; mince, lisp; jabber, gibber; sputter, splutter; muffle, mump; drawl, mouth; croak; speak thick, speak through the nose; snuffle, clip one's words; murder the language, murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English; mispronounce, missay. |
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Screenplays | Its not a murder weapon you're talking about you know (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer) This job of yours it's murder on relationships (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) I'm not afraid of death, but I am afraid of murder. (The Conversation; writing credit: Francis Ford Coppola) In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance (The Third Man; writing credit: Graham Greene; Alexander Korda) We were talking about automobile insurance, only you were thinking about murder. And I was thinking about that anklet (Double Indemnity; writing credit: James M. Cain; Billy Wilder) | |
Lyrics | Grabbed her by the throat, it's murder she wrote (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem) Reading murder books tryin' to stay hip. (EYES WITHOUT A FACE; performing artist: Billy Idol) You can be murder at this hour of the day (Clair; performing artist: Gilbert O'Sullivan) No helicopter looking for a murder (It Was a Good Day; performing artist: Ice Cube) Lovely girl you're the murder in my world (Ava Adore; performing artist: The smashing pumpkins) | |
Clever | A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The House That Cried Murder (1974) Reflections of Murder (1974) She Cried Murder (1973) Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1973) Murder Must Advertise (1973) | |
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 | Nonfatal and fatal assaultive firearm-related injury rates for males aged 15-24 years, by quarter--United States, 1993-1997. Gun, bullet, shoot, crime, criminal, murder, homicide. Credit: CDC. |  | Murder of Louisiana sacrificed on the altar of radicalism. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Satan tempting Booth to the murder of the President. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Plain murder -- hammer and sickle brand. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The murder of Poland. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Photograph of the affidavit charging Lee Harvey Oswald with the murder of President John F. Kennedy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Bartolomeo Vanzetti (left) and Nicola Sacco, manacled together surrounded by heavy guard and onlookers, about to enter the courthouse at Dedham, Massachusetts where they will receive the death sentence for murder they committed seven years ago. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wanted by the FBI. Leroy Eldridge Cleaver. Interstate flight - assault with intent to commit murder. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Wanted for murder : Ian Smith. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | -- the U.S. Government continues, methodically, to murder thousands of innocent Vietnamese -- how much longer can the American people accept this horror?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Caw; crow; cawing; caws; cackle; cackles; cackling; crows; crowing; murder. | | Caw; crow; cawing; caws; cackle; cackles; cackling; crows; crowing; murder. |
| Caw; crow; cawing; caws; cackle; cackles; cackling; crows; crowing; murder. | | Muffled; muted; silenced; murder. |
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Akhenaton | Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend. |
Arnold Toynbee | Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. |
Bishop Beilby Porteus | One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. |
Charles | At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. |
Horace | Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him. |
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. |
Octave Mirbeau | Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder. |
Oscar Wilde | Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. |
Thomas de Quincey | As the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius. |
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John Locke | 1690 | And Cain was so fully convinced, that every one had a right to destroy such a criminal, that after the murder of his brother, he cries out, Every one that findeth me, shall slay me; so plain was it writ in the hearts of all mankind. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It goes by the naked names of theft, prostitution, murder, and assassination |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | To murder me |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does |
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Civil Liberties | Mexico | One, from July in the state of Morelos, was for murder. (references) |
Bangladesh | Four persons were arrested for their suspected involvement in the murder. (references) | |
Mexico | Flores later was found dead, in what appeared to be an execution-style murder. (references) | |
Economic History | Sudan | Sudanese officials arrested the terrorists and tried them on murder charges. (references) |
Pakistan | Subsequently, Bhutto was convicted and sentenced to death for alleged conspiracy to murder a political opponent. (references) | |
Afghanistan | On April 27, 1978, the PDPA initiated a bloody coup, which resulted in the overthrow and murder of Daoud and most of his family. (references) | |
Human Rights | Seychelles | A jury is used in cases involving murder or treason. (references) |
Pakistan | The usual penalties consist of fines, even for murder. (references) | |
Georgia | The remainder had been charged or convicted of murder. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Bangladesh | Bengalis formed a procession to protest the murder and to demand action against those responsible. (references) |
Bangladesh | Police arrested 6 tribals in connection with the murder of the truck driver, and 15 others for arson. (references) | |
Colombia | The Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC) attributed Secue's murder to the FARC and said the killing may have been retribution for Secue's investigations of crimes by the FARC. (references) | |
Minorities | Bangladesh | Two professors at the same college were arrested in connection with the murder. (references) |
Bangladesh | It is unclear whether the murder was connected to the persecution of Hindus since the election. (references) | |
Bangladesh | Other actions included the rape, torture, murder, and looting of Hindus, forcing them to flee their villages. (references) | |
Political Economy | El Salvador | An appeals court affirmed that the statute of limitations had expired in the 1989 murder case of six Jesuit priests. (references) |
Haiti | FL Senator and president of the Senate Commission on Public Security Dany Toussaint is a suspect in the Dominique murder. (references) | |
Guatemala | On June 8, a court convicted an army captain, a retired army colonel, a former EMP specialist, and a Catholic priest for the 1998 murder of Catholic bishop and human rights activist Juan Gerardi Conedera. (references) | |
Women | India | LRI statistics show that 17.19 percent of the reported cases are dowry-related harassment or murder. (references) |
Brazil | Men who commit crimes against women, including sexual assault and murder, are unlikely to be brought to trial. (references) | |
Paraguay | Most imprisoned women reportedly were detained for assault, including murder, committed following domestic violence. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Portugal | A refusal to pay leads to severe beatings and even murder. (references) |
Guatemala | While union groups called for a through investigation, there was no public evidence that the murder was politically motivated. (references) | |
Belgium | Five suspects remained under investigation, including the accused ringleader, Marc Dutroux, who was arrested in 1996 and charged with murder. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference. |
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Cary Goldstein | I believe so. Robert Blake is a wealthy individual. He's a celebrity, although maybe at this point one might consider him a minor celebrity. And we've seen that celebrities and wealthy people in this country have been getting away with murder. |
Ellen Levin | Not really. There were several jurors that were very adamant that he should have been found guilty of murder, and there was one juror who, I believe, and I was told that seemed to have a secret crush on him, and that she was perhaps the one holdout. |
Erin Runnion | Right, right. Well, you know, I didn't want cameras in the courtroom because this case isn't just murder. |
Lisa French | Right. We have second-degree murder without a weapon, and then we have a not guilty charge, so nobody killed Terry. |
Nancy Grace | You say look at this good looking guy, committed murder. Nobody wants to believe that. That's the fascination with the court system. You go into the mind and the heart of a human. |
Rush Limbaugh | Corporations are getting away with murder! |
Scott Thorson | There were four people murdered and one attempted murder. So we're talking about four counts of first degree murder, one count of attempted murder. |
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George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | And we will not allow any terrorist or tyrant to threaten civilization with weapons of mass murder. |
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| "Murder" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.23% of the time. "Murder" is used about 5,717 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.23% | 5,215 | 1,875 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 8.4% | 480 | 12,390 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.35% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5,717 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "murder". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Iscariot | N/A | Biblical | A man of murder |
| Tebah | N/A | Biblical | Murder |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "murder": aggravated murder ♦ anything short of murder ♦ attempted murder ♦ capital murder ♦ commit a murder ♦ cry blue murder ♦ cry murder ♦ do murder ♦ first degree murder ♦ judicial murder ♦ mass murder ♦ murder by poison ♦ murder charge ♦ murder conviction ♦ murder for hire ♦ murder indictment ♦ murder mystery ♦ murder rate ♦ murder squad ♦ murder suspect ♦ murder the King's English ♦ murder the Queen's English ♦ murder victim ♦ on a charge of murder ♦ on suspicion of murder ♦ premeditate a murder ♦ premeditated murder ♦ race murder ♦ sensational murder ♦ serial murder ♦ the alleged murder ♦ the murder is out ♦ third degree murder ♦ treacherous murder ♦ wilful murder ♦ willful murder. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "murder": murder-let, Murder-manslaughter, murder-more, murder-sites, murder-solving, murder-then, murder-trap. | |
Ending with "murder": can-get-away-with-murder, child-murder, felony-murder, getting-away-with-murder, girl-murder, mass-murder, pre-murder, Self-murder, soul-murder, wife-murder, witchcraft-murder. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
murder | 2,299 | diagnosis murder | 100 |
murder inc | 1,026 | murder city devil | 96 |
c murder | 583 | murder mystery weekend | 90 |
murder mystery | 381 | charles manson murder | 85 |
murder mystery game | 329 | mass murder | 82 |
murder windshield | 315 | atlanta child murder | 80 |
murder she wrote | 286 | murder by death | 75 |
unsolved murder | 238 | murder photo scene | 71 |
inc murder record | 237 | murder mystery dinner theater | 71 |
murder photo | 204 | a murder of crow | 66 |
murder with picture | 196 | murder scene | 66 |
murder by numbers | 156 | bobby kent murder | 66 |
murder mystery party | 145 | host a murder | 64 |
murder philadelphia plot teen | 135 | murder victim | 64 |
doll murder | 135 | famous murder | 60 |
inc.com murder | 135 | serial murder | 60 |
a case for murder | 114 | murder pic | 56 |
holly jones murder | 111 | laci murder peterson | 56 |
black dahlia murder | 107 | blue murder | 56 |
murder mystery dinner | 101 | anatomy of a murder | 52 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "murder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vrasje (battue, despatch, dispatch, homicide, kill, killing, sleep), vras (assassinate, bag, bruise, bump off, damage, despatch, dispatch, do away with, drop, finish, finish off, get, hurt, injure, kill, Lynch, make away with oneself, poniard, put the sword, puzzle, shoot, slay, stab, stone to death, waste, zap), njerivrasje, gjakësi (assassination, killing). (various references) | |
Arabic | مَق'تَل (death), قتل العمد, قتل (assassinate, assassination, bag, butcher, croak, death, despatch, dispatch, do in, end, finish, fire, homicide, immolate, kill, killing, knock off, lay out, manslaughter, poleaxe, procure, put down, put to death, shoot, slay, take for a ride), عذب (agonize, agreeable, bedevil, benign, charming, chasten, crucify, devil, dulcet, freshen, grilled, harrow, harry, hearty, leisurely, liquid, palmy, persecute, pillory, plague, quiet, rack, rack one's brains, scourge, silken, silky, sleek, smite, smooth, smooth spoken, soft, suave, sweet, sympathetic, tantalize, tease, tender, torment, torture, wrench, wring), ذبح (evert, kill, killing, massacre, slain, slaughter, slay, stick), جريمة قتل, إرتكاب (commission, perpetration). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | убивам (account for, assassinate, dispose of, do in, end, finish, fix, kill, lay out, liquidate, pip, polish off, pop off, pot, push off, put away, put to death, quench, remove, rub out, shoot up, slay, snuff out, starve, strike down, wipe out, zap), развалям (alloy, bitch, blunder, break up, change, contaminate, corrupt, deprave, disaffirm, injure, louse up, mangle, mess about, mess around, muddle, mutilate, nip, perish, queer, spoil, uglify, undo, vitiate), тормозя (badger, bait, bedevil, bully, chivy, excruciate, fret, harass, hunt down, jade, persecute, pester, pick on, plague, play up, prey, push, put upon, rack, rag, ride, scourge, worry), тежка работа (donkey work, elbow grease, fag, grind, job, labor, labour, moil, plod, slavery, task-work, toil, warm work), коля (butcher, kill, massacre, slaughter, stick), много тревожно положение, много опасно положение, жива мъка, предумишлено убийство. (various references) | |
Chinese | 谋杀 (Murdered, Murdering), 謀殺 , 殺人案件 , 殺害 , 刺 (assassinate, pierce, prick, stab, sting, thorn, thrust). (various references) | |
Czech | zavraždit (assassinate, hit, kill, slay), vraždit, vražda (assassination, foul play, hit). (various references) | |
Danish | mord. (various references) | |
Dutch | vermoorden, moorden (massacre). (various references) | |
Esperanto | murdo, murdi. (various references) | |
Faeroese | myrða. (various references) | |
Farsi | کشتن (Administer, Amortize, Butcher, Dispatch, Doin, Extinguish, Mortify, Out, Rat, Smite), کشتار (Carnage, Massacre, Planter), قتل (Homicide), ادمکشی (Manslaughter), بقتل رساندن (Brain, Slay). (various references) | |
Finnish | murhata (assassinate), murha. (various references) | |
French | assassinat, meurtre, assassiner. (various references) | |
Frisian | moardzje, moard, fermoardzje. (various references) | |
German | mord (assassination, bloodshed, hit, homicide, slaying), ermorden (assassinate, kill, liquidate, slain, slay, to assassinate, to murder). (various references) | |
Greek | σκοτώνω (kill, slay), φόνοσ (blood, kill, killing), φόνος, φονικό (murderous), φονεύω (despatch, destroy, dispatch, kill, slaughter, slay, slew), ανθρωποκτονία εκ προθέσεως, δολοφωνία, δολοφονία (assassination, killing). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"רו' (cut down, kill, slay), לרצוח (kill, slay), "רי'" (execution, killing, slaughter), "ר'" (killing), "ר' (kill, killing, massacre, slaying), רצח (assassination, foul play, homicide). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyilkosság (hit, homicide), gyilkol (kill, to kill). (various references) | |
Icelandic | morð, drap. (various references) | |
Indonesian | menewaskan (assassinate, kill, slay), membunuh (assassinate, butcher, delete, erase, kill, plug, put out, slay), pembunuhan (assassination, homicide, killing, slaying), bunuh (assassinate, slay). (various references) | |
Italian | omicidio (homicide), assassinio (assassination, killing), assassinare (assassinate). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 人殺し (murderer), 殺人罪 , 殺人 , 殺人 , 殺害 (killing), 殺害 (killing), 殺 (butcher, diminish, kill, reduce, slice off, split, spoil), 兇行 (crime, violence), 凶行 (crime, violence). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きょう"う (consternation, crime, enforcement, famine, firm, forcing, height of a mirror stand, panic, poor crops, Pope, scare, strong, stubborn, thoracic cavity, thorax, unbending, unyielding, vigorous, violence), ひと"ろし (murderer), さつがい (killing), さつじ"ざい, さつじ", さつ (butcher, counter for books, diminish, kill, note, paper money, police, reduce, remain, slice off, split, spoil, stay, temple, volume). (various references) | |
Korean | 살인. (various references) | |
Manx | milley (blemish, blemish as work, blur, blur as vision, botch, corrupt, corruption, debauch; marring, deflower, despoil, despoliation; thousand, disfigure, disfigurement, impair, impairment, mar, muff, ruin, spoil, spoiling, tarnish), marroo (aground; deceased estate, assassinate, bag game; dead, bag; dead, butcher, deceased, defunct, departed, dispatch, dud, dull, dull of pain, exterminate, extinct; extermination, flat, flat mood, flat spot, glassy, glassy as look, inanimate, kill, kill off, killed, killing, lifeless, liquidate, liquidation, mortified, muggy, slaughter, slaughtered, slaughtering, slay, slaying, sleeping, stagnant), jannoo dunverys (murdering, slaughter), foall (deceit, felony, slyness), dunverys (assassination, homicide, slaughter). (various references) | |
Papiamen | asesiná. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urdermay.(various references) | |
Polish | mordować. (various references) | |
Portuguese | homicídio (assassination), assassinato (assassination), assassinar (assassinate, kill, slay), assassínio (felony, killing). (various references) | |
Romanian | masacra (butcher, massacre, mutilate, slaughter, spoil), ucide (assassinate, butcher, croak, destroy, execute, kill, poison, slaughter, slay, smother, spoil, strangle, suffocate), stâlci (beat smb. black and blue, belabour, bruise, distort, drub, flog, whack, whip), omorî (annihilate, assassinate, bring down, bump, butcher, croak, destroy, dispatch, do for, do in, execute, exhaust, finish, kill, knock off, make an end of, make away with, put smb. on the spot, put to death, send to glory, shift, slaughter, slay, spoil, torment, torture), omor (bane, carnage, homicide, slaughter), crimã (crime, delinquency, felony, homicide, maleficence, misdeed, offence, outrage, removal, sin), asasinat (assassination, crime, removal), asasina (assassinate, bump off, kill, slay). (various references) | |
Russian | убивать убийство (slaying), убивать (assassinate, assassinating, do in, do to death, kill, liquidate, put death, slain, slay, smite), убийство (assassination, homicide, kill, manslaughter). (various references) | |
Scottish | murt (See <A HREF="mf09.html#mort">mort</A>), mort (murdering, slay, slaying;). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | upropastiti (blight, destroy, havoc, make a hash of cutting, muck up, muff, ruin, screw up, spoil, vitiate, wrack), ubiti (assassinate, bag, bump off, cut down, do away, do away with, kill, make away, put away, slay, wipe out, zap), ubistvo (assassination, homicide), natucati. (various references) | |
Spanish | asesinar (assassinate, kill), homicidio (homicide), asesinato (assassination, killing, shooting). (various references) | |
Sranan | kiri (kill, liquidate, slay). (various references) | |
Swedish | mord (assassination, elimination, hit, homicide, killing), mörda (assassinate, Burke, dispatch, kill), dråp (homicide, manslaughter, man-slaughter). (various references) | |
Thai | ทำลาย (annihilate, assassinate, blight, break, eat, extinguish, kick in), การฆาตกรรม, ฆาตกรรม (homicide). (various references) | |
Turkish | kasten öldürmek, cinayet işlemek (commit a crime, commit a murder, kill), cinayet (crime, criminal, enormity, felony, homicide, killing), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), adam öldürme (assassination, homicide, manslaughter, thuggee), öldürmek (assassinate, bump off, carry off, croak, cut down, destroy, dispatch, do away with, do in, do one's job for one, drop, erase, exterminate, get, get rid of, give smb. his quietus, ice, kill, kill off, knock off, knock out, liquidate, make away with, off, put away, put down, put to death, rub out, send to glory, shoot, shoot dead, slay, take off, take smb.'s life, waste, wipe out, zap), öldürme (destruction, dispatch, kill, killing, manslaughter, putting to death). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | убивство (homicide, killing), убивати (deaden, finish off, homicide, kill, pick off, put to death, slay, thug), рятуйте (help), погано виконувати. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vụ âm mưu đã bị khám phá, tội giết người (homecide). (various references) | |
Welsh | murn (injury), llofruddio, llofruddiaeth, galanas (massacre). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | caedam, caedant, caedat, caede, caedebant, caedebat, caedemus, caedendos, caedens, caedent, caedente, caedentem, caedentes, caedentibus, caedere, caederent, caederentur, caedes, caedet, caedetur, caedi, caedimur, caedis, caedite, caeditur, caesa, caesi, caesis, caesorum, caesos, caesum, caesuri, caesus, ceciderant, ceciderat, ceciderint, ceciderit, cecideritque, ceciderunt, cecideruntque, cecidi, cecidimus, cecidisse, cecidissent, cecidisset, cecidisti, cecidit, ceciditque, cruor, cruor, cruoris, cruore, cruorem, homicidia, homicidii, homicidiis, homicidio, homicidium, interficio interfeci interfectum, iugulabant, iugulantur, iugulare, iugulati, iugulatum, iugulaverunt, iugulavit, iugulemur, nece, necem, neci, necis, occidam, occidamus, occidas, occidat, occidatis, occidatur, occide, occidebant, occidebat, occidebatis, occidendi, occidendum, occidendus, occident, occidente, occidentem, occidentis, occidentium, occidentur, occiderant, occiderat, occidere, occiderem, occiderent, occiderentur, occideres, occideret, occideretis, occideretur, occiderimus, occideris, occiderit, occideritis, occidero, occiderunt, occides, occidet, occidetis, occidetur, occidi, occidimus, occidis, occidisse, occidissem, occidissent, occidisses, occidisset, occidisti, occidistis, occidit, occidite, occiditis, occiditque, occidunt, occisa, occisi, occisione, occisionem, occisioni, occisionis, occisis, occisorum, occisos, occisum, occisus, supercecidit. (various references) |
| Old Italian | 700-1500 | carnaggio. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 23, Verse 19 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | OstiV hn dia stasin tina genomenhn en th polei kai fonon beblhmenoV eiV fulakhn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Qui erat propter seditionem quandam factam in civitate et homicidium missus in carcerem |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Which was sent `in to prisoun for disturblyng maad in the cite, and for mansleynge. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Which for insurrccion made in the cite and morther was cast into preson. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | (Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.) |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | (Who, for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.) |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Now this man was in prison because of an attack against the government in the town, in which there had been loss of life. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 23, Verse 19 |
| Chinese | 這 巴 拉 巴 是 在 城 裡 作 亂 殺 人 下 在 監 裡 的 。 |
| Croatian | A taj bijaše baèen u tamnicu zbog neke pobune u gradu i ubojstva. |
| Danish | Denne var kastet i Fængsel for et Oprør, som var sket i Staden, og for Mord. |
| Dutch | Dewelke was om zeker oproer, dat in de stad geschied was, en om een doodslag, in de gevangenis geworpen. |
| Finnish | Tämä oli heitetty vankeuteen kaupungissa tehdystä kapinasta sekä murhasta. |
| French | Cet homme avait été mis en prison pour une sédition qui avait eu lieu dans la ville, et pour un meurtre. |
| Haitian Creole | Barabas sa a, se te yon nonm ki te nan prizon poutèt lèzam li te pran kont gouvènman an epi pou yon moun li te touye nan lavil la. |
| Hungarian | Ki a városban lett valami lázadásért és gyilkosságért vettetett a tömlöczbe. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka Barabbas itu seorang yang dipenjarakan sebab kedurhakaannya di dalam negeri, dan sebab bunuhan. |
| Italian | Questi era stato messo in carcere per una sommossa scoppiata in citt e per omicidio. |
| Latvian | Kas pilsçtâ kâdas notikuðâs sacelðanâs un slepkavîbas dçï bija ielikts cietumâ. |
| Maori | Ko tenei hoki i maka ki te whare herehere mo te nananga i nana ai ia i roto i te pa, mo te patu tangata. |
| Norwegian | Dette var en som var kastet i fengsel for et oprør som hadde vært i byen, og for et mord. |
| Portuguese | Ora, Barrabás fora lançado na prisão por causa de uma sedição feita na cidade, e de um homicídio. |
| Rumanian | Baraba fusese aruncat kn temniyq pentru o rqscoalq, care avusese loc kn cetate, wi pentru un omor. |
| Russian | чБТБЧЧБ 'ЩМ ПУБЦЕО Ч ФЕНОЙ"Х ЪБ ТПЙЪЧЕ"ЕООПЕ Ч ЗПТП"Е ЧПЪНХЭЕОЙЕ Й Х'ЙКУФЧП. |
| Shuar | Nu Parapássha akupniun nakitiak mesetan najana asa tura mankartin asa sepunam enkeamuyayi. |
| Uma | Barabas toe ratarungku' sabana pe'ewa-na hi topoparenta hi rala ngata pai' topepatehi wo'o-i. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "murder": murdered, murderee, murderees, murderer, murderers, murderess, murderesses, murdering, murderous, murderously, murderousness, murderousnesses, murders. (additional references) | |
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"Murder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: maerdref, marder, maroder, merde, merder, merter, meurtre, moeder, mordar, morde, morder, mordern, mordex, mordre, mudder, mudeer, muder, mudr, mudre, Muirden, Muldaur, mulder, munder, Muradov, murd, Murdac, Murdar, murde, Murdin, murdre, Murdy, murer, Murerwa, murger, murmer, Murter, murther, Nurden. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "murder" (pronounced mer"der) |
| 3 | -er" d er | birder, girder. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-m-r-r-u" | |
-1 letter: demur, mured, murre, ruder. | |
-2 letters: derm, drum, dure, durr, mure, murr, rude, rued, ruer. | |
-3 letters: due, emu, err, med, mud, red, rem, rue, rum, urd. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, em, er, me, mu, re, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-m-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: demurer, drummer, eardrum, murders, rumored. | |
+2 letters: armoured, demurral, demurred, demurrer, drumfire, drumlier, drummers, eardrums, marauder, murdered, murderee, murderer, murmured, rumoured, underarm, unmarred. | |
+3 letters: armatured, demurrage, demurrals, demurrers, demurring, drugmaker, drumfires, durometer, marauders, maunderer, murderees, murderers, murderess, murdering, murderous, murthered, unarmored, underarms, underbrim, unmarried. | |
+4 letters: bemurmured, breadcrumb, demurrages, dramaturge, drugmakers, drumbeater, durometers, harrumphed, lumberyard, maunderers, mercurated, referendum, reimbursed, remeasured, renumbered, underbrims, unmarrieds, unreformed, unremarked. | |
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