19
murder(noun, end, ruin, extinction, slaughter)
17
execution(noun, hit, slaughter, murder, killing)
17
killing(noun, verb, adjective, hit, violent)
13
massacre(noun, end, ruin, extinction, slaughter)
13
slaughter(noun, end, ruin, extinction, loss)
12
assassination(noun, violence, slaughter, destruction, murder)
11
liquidation(noun, end, ruin, extinction, slaughter)
10
extermination(noun, end, ruin, slaughter, loss)
7
bloodshed(noun, slaughter, destruction, murder, crime)
6
butchery(noun, slaughter, destruction, murder, crime)
6
carnage(noun, end, ruin, extinction, slaughter)
6
destruction(noun, ruin, violence, murder, killing)
6
genocide(noun, slaughter, murder, massacre, annihilation)
6
homicide(noun, violence, slaughter, destruction, murder)
6
manslaughter(noun, violence, slaughter, destruction, murder)
6
removal(noun, killing)
6
strangling(verb, hit, killing, gangland slaying)
4
butchering(noun, verb, slaughter, crime, massacre)
4
dispatching(noun, verb, killing)
4
elimination(noun, destruction, murder, killing, devastation)
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