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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. |
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