I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ barbaric , brutal , grisly , gruesome , horrific , savage , terrible , vicious , violent
▪ cold-blooded , deliberate , premeditated , wilful/willful ( law , esp. BrE )
▪
a verdict of wilful ~
▪ senseless
▪ shocking , tragic
▪ perfect
▪
He committed the perfect ~ and left no forensic evidence.
▪ indiscriminate , random
▪ systematic
▪ wholesale
▪
the wholesale ~ of innocent citizens
▪ first-degree , second-degree
▪ aggravated
▪ attempted
▪ alleged , suspected
▪ double , mass , multiple , serial , triple
▪ ritual
▪ terrorist
▪ gangland ( BrE )
▪ racial , racist , sectarian
▪ politically motivated , racially motivated , sexually motivated
▪ judicial , state-sanctioned , state-sponsored
▪ high-profile , notorious
▪ mysterious
▪ unsolved
▪ capital , felony , statutory (all AmE , law )
VERB + MURDER
▪ carry out , commit , perpetrate ( formal )
▪
~s committed by terrorists
▪ investigate , probe ( esp. BrE )
▪ solve
▪ link
▪
Detectives are linking the two ~s.
▪ imprison sb for , jail sb for
▪ avenge
▪
He vowed to avenge his brother's ~.
▪ witness
▪ implicate sb in
▪
new evidence that implicated her in the ~
▪ mastermind , orchestrate , plan , plot
▪ advocate
▪ order
▪
He ordered the ~ of his political opponents.
▪ admit , deny
▪ get away with ( figurative )
▪
They let their children get away with ~!
▪ incite
▪ condemn
▪ condone , justify
▪
Nothing justifies ~.
MURDER + VERB
▪ happen , occur , take place
▪ shock sb
▪
It was a ~ which shocked the nation.
MURDER + NOUN
▪ victim
▪ suspect
▪ detective , squad
▪ case , hunt ( informal ), inquiry ( esp. BrE ), investigation , probe
▪ charge
▪ trial
▪ conviction
▪ attempt
▪ plot
▪ scene , site
▪ weapon
▪ campaign ( esp. BrE ), spree
▪ count , rate , toll
▪
a city that has the highest ~ rate in the US
▪ capital
▪
The city used to be the ~ capital of the world.
▪ mystery , story
▪
Her latest novel is a gripping ~ mystery.
II.
verb
ADVERB
▪ brutally , cruelly , in cold blood , savagely , violently
▪
The boy was brutally ~ed.
▪
They were ~ed in cold blood.
▪ systematically
▪ deliberately
▪ allegedly
VERB + MURDER
▪ attempt to , try to
▪ plan to , plot to
PHRASES
▪ admit ~ing sb , deny ~ing sb
▪ be accused of ~ing sb , be charged with ~ing sb
▪
She was arrested and charged with ~ing the two children.
▪ be convicted of ~ing sb , be found guilty of ~ing sb
▪ be found ~ed
▪
He was found ~ed in the cemetery.
Murder is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ fanatic , ↑ killer , ↑ mob
Murder is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ lover