1. (n.) The offense of killing a human being with malice pretense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.

2. (n.) To kill with premeditated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder.

3. (n.) To destroy; to put an end to.

4. (n.) To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.

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