English-French translations for murder

• meurtre
  Ouganda: meurtre de David Kato ( Uganda: murder of David Kato (
  Meurtres de défenseurs des droits de l'homme en Russie Murder of human rights activists in Russia
  Déclaration de la présidence sur les meurtres d'enfants Statement by the President on child murders
• assassiner
• assassinat
  Il s'agit donc d'un double assassinat: l'assassinat d'une personne et l'assassinat de la démocratie. It is a double murder: the murder of an individual and the murder of democracy.
  Quelle est la raison de ces assassinats? Why have these murders happened?
  Nous rendons hommage aux victimes de ces assassinats. We honour the victims of those murders.
• homicide
  Ainsi, en Grèce, 35 homicides perpétrés par des maris sur leurs épouses ont été enregistrés au cours des dix-huit derniers mois. In Greece, for example, 35 spouse murders have been recorded over the past eighteen months.
  Deux ans après sa mort, le procès pour homicide, dans le cas d'Anna Politkovskaya, a commencé. Two years on from her death, the murder trial, in the case of Anna Politkovskaya, has begun.
  Ce chiffre est supérieur au nombre des décès causés par les accidents de la route, les homicides et le SIDA. This figure is higher than the number of those who die in car accidents, are murdered or die of AIDS.
• tuer
  Tuer quelqu’un dans le but de prendre son foie pour la recherche est un assassinat. Killing someone to take their liver for research is murder.
  Personne n'a le droit de tuer pour tenter d'atteindre un objectif politique. No one has the right to murder in the attempt to achieve a political objective.
  Les autorités iraniennes devraient cesser immédiatement de tuer des jeunes au nom d'un droit inhumain. The Iranian authorities should immediately stop murdering young people in the name of an inhumane law.
• écorcher
• meurtrir
• occire
• trucider

Definition of murder

• The crime of deliberately killing another person without justification
• The act of deliberate killing of another person or other being without justification, especially with malice aforethought
• The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.see Wikipedia's article on w:Ryan Holle--
• A group of crows;
• To deliberately kill#Verb|kill without justification, especially with malice aforethought
• To defeat#Verb|defeat decisively
• To kick ass|kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody
• To botch or mangle#Verb|mangle
• To devour, ravish

Examples

• The defendant was charged with murder
• There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone
• This headache is murder
• The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband
• Our team is going to murder them
• Hes torn my best shirt. When I see him, Ill murder him!
• I could murder a hamburger right now

Related words

• murderer
• murderess
• murderous
• murderee
• murderously
• murderball
• double-murderer
• murder throng
• murder weapon