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1. Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
   - slaying, execution

1. Kill intentionally and with premeditation
   "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered";
   - slay [literary], hit, dispatch, bump off [informal], off [N. Amer, informal], polish off [informal], remove, croak
    
2. Alter so as to make unrecognizable
   "The tourists murdered the French language";
   - mangle, mutilate

Derived forms: murders, murdered, murdering

Type of: distort, falsify, garble, homicide, kill, warp

Encyclopedia: Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man