Usually means: Unlawful killing of another person.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. murder: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. murder: Merriam-Webster
  3. murder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. murder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. murder: Collins English Dictionary
  6. murder: Vocabulary.com
  7. Murder, murder: Wordnik
  8. murder: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. murder: Wiktionary
  10. murder: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. murder: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. murder: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Murder, murder: Dictionary.com
  14. murder (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
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  16. Murder: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. murder: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. murder: Rhymezone
  19. murder: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. murder: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. murder: FreeDictionary.org
  22. murder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. murder: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Murder: World Wide Words
  25. murder: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Murder (Russian law): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  27. murder: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. murder: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. murder: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. murder: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  10. murder: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. murder: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  3. murder: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. MURDER: Acronym Finder
  3. murder: Idioms

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Murder: Easton Bible
  2. Murder: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Murder: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. murder, murder: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. murder: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The crime of killing a person unlawfully, especially with predetermination.
noun:  (uncountable, law, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The act of committing or abetting a crime that results in the killing of a person, regardless of intent, and even if the committer or abettor is not the one who killed the person: felony murder.
noun:  (countable) The act of killing a person (or sometimes another being) unlawfully, especially with predetermination
noun:  (uncountable, used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.
noun:  (countable, collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
noun:  (dated slang) Something remarkable or impressive.
verb:  To illegally kill (a person or persons) with intent, especially with predetermination
verb:  (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To defeat decisively.
verb:  (figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
verb:  To botch or mangle.
verb:  (figuratively, colloquial, British) To devour, ravish.
noun:  A surname.

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