violent death

• murderDeliberate unlawful killing
• homicideCausing another's death
• killingCausing death deliberately
• slaughterKilling for meat
• bloodshedKilling and wounding

massacre · assassination · manslaughter · carnage · stabbing · shooting · strangling · bludgeoning · fatal · corpse · victim · brutality · gore · wound · trauma · executed · slain · butchered

• deathficcharacter death, fatal injury, war death, sudden death, slow death
• literary deathdeath scene, deathbed, dying, corpse, funeral
• literary violenceviolence, brutality, cruelty, murder mystery, bloodshed
• deathsnatural death, sudden death, accidental death, tragic death, hanging
• dyingdying, expiring, passing, passing away, perishing
• hauntingsghosts, apparition, apparitions, ghost sighting, phantoms