Definition of Murder

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Murder

The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.

To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.

To destroy; to put an end to.

To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.

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Murder Quotations

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Barack Obama

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
Jim Morrison

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Jack Benny

Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
William Blake

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
George W. Bush

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
Jean-Paul Sartre

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
Woodrow Wilson

Murder Translations

murder in Danish is mord
murder in Dutch is moorden, vermoorden
murder in Finnish is murhata
murder in French is assassinat, assassinent, assassinater, assassinez
murder in Italian is assassinare, omicidio colposo, omicidio
murder in Latin is cruor
murder in Portuguese is assassinato
murder in Spanish is homicidio, asesinato, asesinar

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