Meaning

• The crime of deliberately killing another person without justification.

  "The defendant was charged with murder."

• The act of deliberate killing of another person or other being without justification, especially with malice aforethought.

  "There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone."

• (in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.

• (used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.

  "This headache is murder."

• (collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.

Meaning

• To deliberately kill (a person or persons) without justification, especially with malice aforethought.

  "The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband."

• To defeat decisively.

  "Our team is going to murder them."

• To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).

  "He's torn my best shirt. When I see him, I'll murder him!"

• To botch or mangle.

• To devour, ravish.

  "I could murder a hamburger right now."