Murdered

/ˈmɝ.dɚd/

Synonyms for "murdered" (34 found)

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Closest matches (7)

Verb(4 words)

assassinate assassinated botch burked

botched bungled butchered

Strong matches (10)

Verb(3 words)

destroy garroted garrotted

fumbled ill-advised ill-considered ill-contrived ill-devised ill-done ill-executed

Related words (17)

ill-managed impolitic misconducted misdirected misguided mismanaged muffed negligent spoiled

Verb(8 words)

kill killed lynched martyred ruin slain slay whacked

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6 relation types

More general

4 entries

dead deceased kill perform

More specific

8 entries

assassinate botch manglemass murdermurdered victimmurdered witnessruin slay

Collocations

10 entries

capital murdermurder ratemurdered bodymurdered corpsemurdered personmurdered suspectmurdered victimmurdered witnesspremeditated murderserial murder

Inflections

4 entries

more murderedmost murderedmurdering murders

Derivations

7 entries

murder murderer murderers murdering murderous murderously murders

similar

1 entries

dead

Sample sentences

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There's a possibility that the man was murdered.

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The actress murdered her lines.

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The police arrested the man who had murdered the girl.

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More than 20,000 Americans are murdered each year.

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