murder
Premeditated fatal crime
A murder is the malicious killing of one person by another or others.
Murder (uncountable) characterizes this crime generally.
If you murder someone, you commit a murder.
Figurative meanings of murder don’t typically involve death.
A task described as murder is difficult and challenging: That chemistry test was murder.
If you get away with murder, you escape punishment for wrongdoing.
To murder an opponent in a competition is to defeat them soundly.
Serious criminal offense
- assassinationMurder of a prominent figure
- perpetratorOne who commits wrongdoing
- suspectBelieve to be likely
- convictionFirmly held belief
indictment · prosecution · defendant · verdict · arraignment · plea · penalty · incarceration
Crime fiction identifying perpetrator
- mysterySomething unexplained or unknown
- thrillerSuspense-driven narrative genre
- suspenseAnxious uncertainty about outcomes
- detectiveProfessional crime investigator
sleuth · plot · twist · victim · culprit · noir · motive · alibi
Scientific crime-scene analysis
- evidenceFacts supporting truth
- detectiveProfessional crime investigator
- clueSolving aid
- alibiDefense of location
interrogation · suspect · witness · autopsy · bloodstain · ballistics · DNA · coroner
Murder of a prominent figure
- matricideMaternal murder
- patricideMurder of one's father
- fratricideKilling one's own brother
- sororicideMurdering one's own sister
infanticide · regicide · tyrannicide · parricide · genocide · filicide · serial · mass
Large black corvids
- ravensLarge black scavenging birds
- corvidsCrow family birds
- flockAnimals gathered together
- unkindnessLack of compassion
roosting · cawing · gathering · parliament · conspiracy
Guilt for wrongdoing
- confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
- conscienceInternal moral sense
- penanceSelf-mortification for wrongdoing
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
shame · regret · contrition · repentance · self-blame · compunction · absolution · redemption
felony
Serious criminal offense
- assassinationMurder of a prominent figure
- perpetratorOne who commits wrongdoing
- suspectBelieve to be likely
conviction · indictment · prosecution · defendant · verdict · arraignment · plea · penalty · incarceration · justice
whodunit
Crime fiction identifying perpetrator
- mysterySomething unexplained or unknown
- thrillerSuspense-driven narrative genre
- suspenseAnxious uncertainty about outcomes
detective · sleuth · plot · twist · victim · culprit · noir · motive · alibi · revelation
forensics
Scientific crime-scene analysis
alibi · interrogation · suspect · witness · autopsy · bloodstain · ballistics · DNA · coroner · motive
assassination
Murder of a prominent figure
- matricideMaternal murder
- patricideMurder of one's father
- fratricideKilling one's own brother
sororicide · infanticide · regicide · tyrannicide · parricide · genocide · filicide · serial · mass · spree
crows
Large black corvids
unkindness · roosting · cawing · gathering · parliament · conspiracy
remorse
Guilt for wrongdoing
- confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
- conscienceInternal moral sense
- penanceSelf-mortification for wrongdoing
atonement · shame · regret · contrition · repentance · self-blame · compunction · absolution · redemption · bloodguilt
- crimesarson, burglary, robbery, kidnapping, vandalism
- mysteryclue, detective, suspect, clues, sleuth
- wrongdoingmisconduct, crime, sabotage, crimes, misbehavior
- individual actskindness, generosity, bravery, courage, charity
- plot eventsclimax, plot twist, twist, confrontation, battle scene
- wrongdoingscrime, crimes, sin, sins, wrongdoing
murderresurrect
Restore after ending
save · resuscitate · revive · bring back to life · rescue
murderbreeze
Light, gentle air movement
picnic · cakewalk · cinch · walk in the park · piece of cake
- murder mysteryFiction about solving killings
- getting away with murderEscaping deserved punishment entirely
- get away with murderEscape punishment for wrongdoing
- got away with murderAvoided deserved punishment
- murder weaponItem used to kill
- axe murdererOne who kills with a chopping tool
murderer, murdered, murderous, murders, murder hole, murder holes, murdering, murderously, murderers