n. 25B6; noun
he was charged with homicide : MURDER, killing, slaughter, butchery, massacre; assassination, execution, extermination; patricide, matricide, infanticide; poetic/literary slaying.
(dated) a convicted homicide : KILLER, assassin, serial killer, butcher, slaughterer; patricide, matricide, infanticide; informal hit man, hired gun; dated cut-throat; poetic/literary slayer.