Murder
The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.
To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.
To destroy; to put an end to.
To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.
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Murder Quotations
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Barack Obama
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
Jean-Paul Sartre
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
Jim Morrison
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
George Eliot
Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
William Blake
Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
Woodrow Wilson
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Alfred Adler
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
Alfred Adler
Murder Translations
murder in Danish is mord
murder in Dutch is moorden, vermoorden
murder in Finnish is murhata
murder in French is assassinat, assassinent, assassinater, assassinez
murder in Italian is assassinare, omicidio colposo, omicidio
murder in Latin is cruor
murder in Portuguese is assassinato
murder in Spanish is homicidio, asesinato, asesinar
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