Definition of murder

• n. - The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.
• n. - To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.
• n. - To destroy; to put an end to.
• n. - To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.