All homicide synonyms

noun homicide

• murder — Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder) and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder)
• crime — A crime is an illegal action or activity for which a person can be punished by law.
• foul play — any treacherous or unfair dealing, especially involving murder: We feared that he had met with foul play.
• manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
• assassination — to kill suddenly or secretively, especially a politically prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously.
• death — Death is the permanent end of the life of a person or animal.
• hit — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
• butchery — You can refer to the cruel killing of a lot of people as butchery when you want to express your horror and disgust at this.
• ride — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
• carnage — Carnage is the violent killing of large numbers of people, especially in a war.
• bloodshed — Bloodshed is violence in which people are killed or wounded.
• offing — the state or fact of being off.
• rubout — a murder or assassination.
• killing — the act of killing, especially game: The hounds moved in for the kill.
• slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
• shooting — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
• stabbing — penetrating; piercing: a stabbing pain.
• erase — delete