transitive. To murder. Also figurative.

transitive. To kill (a person) unlawfully, spec. with malice aforethought (in early use often with the additional notion of concealment of the…

transitive. To kill or murder.

transitive. To murder, to kill (a person). Also intransitive.

transitive. = murder, v. 1.

transitive. To murder (a person).

To kill, slay, murder (a person), esp. in a bloody or brutal manner.

transitive. Esp. of a mob: to murder (a person) brutally or violently. Also reflexive: †to commit suicide (obsolete). Also figurative. Now U.S. reg…

transitive. To murder (a person, esp. prominent or famous person) in a planned attack, esp. with a political or ideological motive. Also: to murder…

transitive. To put (a person) out of the way by killing them or arranging their death; to take away the life of (a person); to murder, to…

transitive. To assassinate (literal and figurative).

colloquial. to do a person's business (also to do the business for a person): to ‘do for’, ruin, or kill a person. Also figurative.

transitive. To treat (a person or group of people) in a manner characteristic of the French Septembrists; esp. to murder for political reasons. Also…

intransitive. transitive. To kill; to murder; to hang. dialect or slang.

slang or colloquial. To dispose of by murder.

To get (a person) out of the way. In early use chiefly with away (see also 12a). In later use without adv.: To get rid of (an enemy or rival). Now…

transitive. slang. To dispose of (a troublesome or unwanted person or thing); to destroy or obliterate (a specific target); to kill, murder; to…

transitive. To kill; to murder.

transitive. slang (originally U.S.). To kill; to murder; = to bump off at phrasal verbs 1.

transitive. slang. To kill; to murder.

transitive. British slang. To kill (a person). Cf. to put out of the way at way, n.1 int.1phrases 2h(c)(i). Now rare.

slang (originally U.S.). To kill; to murder.

transitive. Originally U.S. To dismiss (from employment), to sack.

To treat (a person) harshly, violently, or abusively; spec. to murder (someone). Now somewhat rare.

To kill, murder. U.S.

With out. slang. To kill, to murder.

slang. To murder. Also with away.

To beat up, kill, murder (someone); to devastate a place, to kill its inhabitants. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.).

(from 2.) To clear away, remove: most commonly with adverb (away, off, out). spec. To put all to death, destroy completely, exterminate (a body of…

U.S. euphemistic. In the jargon of the intelligence community. to terminate with extreme prejudice: to assassinate. termination with extreme prejudice…

transitive. To render (an enemy, etc.) harmless; to put out of action; spec. (originally U.S.) to kill (euphemistic).

slang. = sense 2d below.

To kill; to murder. Cf. stiff, n. 3a. slang.