Synonyms

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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.