noun to destroy; to put an end to.
2. murder ·noun to kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. ·see murder, ·noun.
3. murder ·noun to mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's english.
4. murder ·noun the offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.