Synonyms Dictionary

6. slaughter, butcher, cut to pieces, hew, hack, hack to pieces, chop, chop to pieces, dismember, draw and quarter, tear limb from limb, disembowel, mutilate, savage, maul, shed or spill blood; wade in blood, run amuck, go berserk, give no quarter, show no mercy.
7. annihilate, exterminate, obliterate, discreate, reduce to nothing, destroy totally, eradicate, extirpate, extinguish; massacre, decimate, destroy a great number.
8. All Fig. abuse, mangle, butcher, slaughter, mutilate, maul; mispronounce, misuse, Rare or Obs. solecize; mar, spoil, ruin, damage, impair, hurt, harm. murderer, n. 1. killer, slayer, manslayer, man-kill-er, cutthroat, thug, poisoner, strangler, impaler; assassin, liquidator, bravo, sniper, gunman, knifer, Euph. silencer, Euph. dispatcher; All Sl. gun, hired gun, hit man, triggerman, torpedo, hatchet man; executioner, excutionist, Sl. Jack Ketch, decapitator, headsman, beheader, lyncher, hangman, garotter, burker, burkist; butcher, slaughterer, Bluebeard, ripper, mass-killer, mass-slayer, exterminator, annihilator, destroyer; bloodspiller, bloodshedder, bloodletter.
2. homicide, patricide, matricide, paricide, fratricide, sororicide, uxoricide, infanticide, regicide, tyrannicide, vaticide. murderous, adj. 1. killing, homicidal, cutthroat, assassinative, death-dealing, lethal, fatal, mortal, mor-tiferous, deadly, deathly, Archaic, lethiferous; slaughterous, internecine, savage, barbarous, cruel, brutal, fiendish, cannibalistic, anthropophagous, bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, sanguinary, sanguine, sanguineous, sanguinolent, bloody, gory, bloodstained, ensanguined; ferocious, violent, frenzied, wild, berserk, amuck, raging, maniacal; annihilating, exterminating, obliterating, extirpative, extirpating, extinguishing, eliminating, withering, devastating, decimating, destructive, destroying.
2. (all in the extreme) difficult, arduous, strenuous, rigorous, herculean, tremendous, gargantuan, huge, prodigious; dangerous, perilous, Archaic, parlous, hazardous, formidable, harrowing, precarious, risky, unsafe, treacherous; trying, unendurable, intolerable, unbearable, insufferable. murky, adj. 1. dark, dusky, gloomy, dismal, dreary, bleak, grim; funereal, somber, solemn, grave, heavy; cheerless, joyless, desolate; discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, depressing, hopeless.
2. foggy, rainy, misty, Archaic, caliginous, hazy, overcast, umbrageous, shadowy, shady, grey; opaque, tenebrous, Literary, darkling, smoggy, smoky, Sl. soupy, lowering; dull, dim, faint, pale, feeble, weak.
3. obscure, vague, nebulous; ambiguous, mysterious, arcane, inexplicable; enigmatic, puzzling, baffling, perplexing, confounding, bewildering; veiled, secret, cryptic, hidden, occult.
4. clandestine, illegitimate, Inf. shady, illicit, unethical, Inf dirty. murmur, n. 1. undertone, whisper, sigh, babble, murmuration, Inf. whoosh; grumble, mussitation, mutter, whine, Inf. grouse, complaint, carping, caviling.
-v. 2. mumble, mutter, whisper, speak in an undertone, babble; grumble, Inf. grouse, Inf. carp; complain softly, sigh, whine, snuffle; keen, moan, softly lament.

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