homicide

Meanings

Plural: homicides

Noun

• the killing of a human being by another human being
• The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
• A person who kills another.
• A victim of homicide; a person who has been unlawfully killed by someone else.
• The department within a police force that investigates cases of homicide.

Synonyms

assassination, first-degree murder, killer, killing, manslaughter, murder, murder victim, second-degree murder

Related Words

deicide, familicide, feticide, filicide, fratricide, genocide, infanticide, mariticide, matricide, omnicide, parricide, patricide, populicide, prolicide, regicide, sororicide, suicide, tyrannicide, unlawful death, uxoricide