The action of murder, v. (in various senses); an instance of this, an act of murder.

The action or an act of killing. The deliberate and unlawful killing of a human being, esp. in a premeditated manner; (Law) criminal homicide with…

Murder, death, destruction: in later usage chiefly in phrases, catch, fetch, get, receive, take one's bane = ‘catch one's death,’ in which it…

murderous play, murder.

(perhaps) talk about murder, murderous talk.

The killing or slaying of a person; murder, homicide, esp. of a brutal kind.

Murder, slaughter.

The practice of murder.

A cruel or atrocious murder. Obsolete.

Death; (also, esp. in earlier use) murder. Cf. removal, n. 1b. Obsolete.

An assassination.

An assassination.

The murder of a person (esp. a prominent public figure) in a planned attack, typically with a political or ideological motive, sometimes carried…

An assassination (literal and figurative).

An assassination.

Murder; assassination; the action of removing a person (see remove, v. 4d). euphemistic in modern use.

= murder, n.1 1a. Now U.S. colloquial.

Murder. Obsolete.

the world or domain of thugs; thugs collectively; (also) the state or condition of being a thug.

Murder.

U.S. A murder carried out with a hatchet (in quot. 1925 by a type of hired Chinese assassin; see hatchet man, n. 2). rare.

The action or process of abolishing or eliminating; the doing away with or killing of unwanted persons.

A murder, an assassination, esp. of one gangster by another.

(a charge of) first-degree murder (see note at sense A. 1a).

Politics and Military (chiefly U.S.) (euphemistic). Killing, assassination.