Murder

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun To Destroy; to put an end to.

II. Murder ·noun To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. ·see Murder, ·noun.

III. Murder ·noun To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to Mangle; as, to murder the king's English.

IV. Murder ·noun The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.