About The Word Homicide

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Homicide

Homicide Meaning & Definition
Homicide Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Homicide?

[n] unlawful premeditated killing of a human being

Synonyms | Synonyms for Homicide: execution | murder | slaying

Related Terms | Find terms related to Homicide: aborticide | apache | assassin | assassination | assassinator | blood | bloodletter | bloodshedder | bloody murder | bravo | bumping-off | burker | butcher | button man | Cain | cannibal | cutthroat | desperado | elimination | eradicator | executioner | exterminator | foul play | fratricide | fungicide | garroter | genocide | germicide | gorilla | gun | gunman | gunsel | hatchet man | head-hunter | herbicide | hit man | homicidal maniac | infanticide | insecticide | killer | killing | liquidation | man-eater | man-killer | manslaughter | manslayer | massacrer | matador | matricide | microbicide | murder | murderer | parricide | patricide | pesticide | poison | poisoner | purge | purging | regicide | removal | rodenticide | slaughterer | slayer | sororicide | strangler | suicide | thug | thuggee | thuggery | thuggism | torpedo | trigger man | uxoricide | vermicide

See Also | assassination | blood | bloodshed | butchery | carnage | dry-gulching | elimination | fratricide | gore | hit | infanticide | kill | killing | liquidation | mass murder | massacre | parricide | putting to death | shoot-down | slaughter | thuggee | tyrannicide

Homicide In Webster's Dictionary

\Hom"i*cide\, n. [F., fr. L. homicidium, fr. homicida a man slayer; homo man + caedere to cut, kill. See {Homage}, and cf. {Concise}, {Shed}, v. t.] 1. The killing of one human being by another. Note: Homicide is of three kinds: justifiable, as when the killing is performed in the exercise of a right or performance of a duty; excusable, as when done, although not as duty or right, yet without culpable or criminal intent; and felonious, or involving what the law terms malice; the latter may be either manslaughter or murder. --Bouvier. 2. One who kills another; a manslayer. --Chaucer. Shak.

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