- (n.) The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.
- (n.) To destroy; to put an end to.
- (n.) To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.
- (n.) To mutilate, spoil or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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