Word Definition

Murder

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