manslaughter
/ˈmanslɔːtə
/noun [mass noun]
The crime of killing a human being without malice aforethought, or in circumstances not amounting to murder: the defendant was convicted of manslaughter [count noun]: murders and manslaughters...
- Whether an offender deserves to be convicted of murder or manslaughter is for the jury to determine.
- The Ministry of Defence should be charged with unlawful killing, manslaughter or murder.
- It is suggested that such a defendant should be regarded as being guilty of manslaughter and not murder.
Synonyms
killing, murder
literary slaying
- wheeled
- wheeler
- wheeler and dealer
- wheeler-dealer
- wheeler-dealing
- Wheeler, John Archibald
- Wheeler Peak
- wheel horse
- wheelhouse
- wheelie
- wheelie bin
- Wheeling
- wheelless
- wheel lock
- wheelman
- wheel set
- wheelsman
- wheels of industry
- wheelspin
- wheels within wheels
- wheel well
- wheelwright
- wheely bin
- wheen
- wheesht