assassinations [uh-sas-uh-neyt]
Main Entry:
homicide [hom-uh-sahyd, hoh-muh-]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: killing
Synonyms: assassination, big chill, bloodshed, bump-off, butchery, carnage, crime, death, erase*, foul play, hit, manslaughter, murder, offing, ride, rubout, slaying
Notes: the general term for the killing of a person by another is homicide; murder is either the intentional killing or malicious killing of another; manslaughter is the unintentional, accidental killing of another through carelessness
Antonyms: birth
Main Entry: massacre
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: killing of many
Synonyms: annihilation, assassination, bloodbath, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, decimation, extermination, genocide, internecion, murder, slaughter, slaying
Main Entry: murder
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: killing
Synonyms: annihilation, assassination, blood, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, crime, death, destruction, dispatching, felony, foul play, hit*, homicide, knifing, liquidation, lynching, manslaughter, massacre, off*, offing, one-way ticket, rub out, shooting, slaying, taking out, terrorism, the business, the works
Main Entry: pogrom
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: massacre
Synonyms: annihilation, assassination, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, decimation, extermination, genocide, internecion, murder, slaughter, slaying
Related Words
Main Entry: killing
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
killing, red, bloodstained, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody, cruentous, cynegetic, deadly, deathly, ensanguined, fatal, gory, halieutic, homicidal, internecine, lethal, lethiferous, mortal, mortiferous, murderous, piscatorial, piscatory, sanguinolent, sicarious, slaughterous, sporting, suicidal, unhealthy, venatic
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Destruction of life; violent death] Killing.
Category: 1. Vitality; vitality in general
Synonyms:
-nouns
killing; homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion; effusion of blood; blood, bloodshed; gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery; battue., massacre; fusillade, noyade; Thuggism., deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus; execution (capital punishment); judicial murder; martydom., butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur; guet-a-pens; gallows, executioner (punishment); maneater, apache, hatchet man [U.S.], highbinder [U.S.]., regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide., suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath; immolation, auto da fe, holocaust., suffocation, strangulation, garrote; hanging; lapidation., deadly weapon (arms); Aceldama., [Destruction of animals] slaughtering; phthiozoics; sport, sporting; the chase, venery; hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing; pig-sticking; sportsman, huntsman, fisherman; hunter, Nimrod; slaughterhouse, shambles, abattoir., fatal accident, violent death, casuality.
-verbs
kill, put to death, slay, shed blood; murder, assassinate, butcher, slaughter, victimize, immolate; massacre; take away life, deprive of life; make away with, put an end to; despatch, dispatch; burke, settle, do for., strangle, garrote, hang, throttle, choke, stifle, suffocate, stop the breath, smother, asphyxiate, drown., saber; cut down, cut to pieces, cut the throat; jugulate; stab, run through the body, bayonet, eviscerate; put to the sword, put to the edge of the sword., shoot dead; blow one's brains out; brain, knock on the head; stone, lapidate; give a deathblow; deal a deathblow; give a quietus, give a coup de grâce., behead, bowstring, electrocute, gas (execute)., hunt, shoot., cut off, nip in the bud, launch into eternity, send to one's last account, sign one's death warrant, strike the death knell of., give no quarter, pour out blood like water; decimate; run amuck; wade knee deep in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood., die a violent death, welter in one's blood; dash out one's brains, blow out one's brains; commit suicide; kill oneself, make away with oneself, put an end to oneself, put an end to it all.
-adjectives
killing; murderous, slaughterous; sanguinary, sanguinolent; blood-stained, bloodthirsty; homicidal, red handed; bloody, bloody minded; ensanguined, gory., mortal, fatal, lethal; dead, deadly; mortiferous, lethiferous; unhealthy; internecine; suicidal., sporting; piscatorial, piscatory.
-adverbs
in at the death.
-phrases
"assassination has never changed the history of the world" [Disraeli].
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