MURDERING: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for MURDERING?

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Associations of "Murdering" (30 Words)

accused	A defendant in a criminal proceeding. The accused was ordered to stand trial on a number of charges.
annihilation	Destruction by annihilating something. The threat of global annihilation.
assassin	A murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed. His assassins were hunted down like animals.
assassinate	Destroy or damage seriously, as of someone’s reputation. The organization s leader had been assassinated four months before the coup.
assassination	Murder of a public figure by surprise attack. The assassination of President Kennedy.
attempted	Tried unsuccessfully. Attempted murder.
cannibalism	The practice of eating the flesh of one’s own species. The film is quite disturbing at points with references to cannibalism.
carnage	The savage and excessive killing of many people. The bombing was timed to cause as much carnage as possible.
choke	Cause a person or animal to choke. A little choke of laughter.
collusion	Collusion between ostensible opponents in a lawsuit. The armed forces were working in collusion with drug traffickers.
connivance	Willingness to allow or be secretly involved in an immoral or illegal act. This infringement of the law had taken place with the connivance of officials.
conscienceless	Lacking a conscience. A conscienceless villain.
conspirator	A member of a conspiracy. Conspirators had planned to seize the state.
dispatch	Kill. He dispatched messages back to base.
exterminate	Destroy completely, as if down to the roots. Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews Gypsies Communists and homosexuals of Europe.
genocide	Systematic killing of a racial or cultural group. A campaign of genocide.
hanging	The practice of hanging condemned people as a form of capital punishment. Hanging palls of smoke.
homicide	A murderer. Knives account for a third of all homicides.
killer	Extremely difficult or unpleasant. The shift system was a killer.
killing	Causing death. A killing joke.
massacre	A heavy defeat of a sporting team or contestant. The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda.
murderer	A criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being. Convicted murderers.
parricide	A person who commits parricide.
regicide	Someone who commits regicide the killer of a king.
savagery	The quality of being fierce or cruel. A craving for barbaric splendor for savagery and color and the throb of drums.
slaughter	Defeat (an opponent) thoroughly. They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter.
slay	Murder (someone. She slayed in a jumpsuit.
slayer	Someone who kills a person or animal in a violent way. David the slayer of Goliath.
suicide	A person who commits suicide. We shot free throws and if we missed we ran suicides.