English words for 'Second-degree murder.'
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noun
- (law, chiefly US, Canada) An act that constitutes the crime of second-degree murder.
- (law, chiefly US, Canada) The criminal offence of murder in a form defined as less serious than first-degree murder; the precise distinction may vary by jurisdiction but typically involves second-degree murder being intentional but not premeditated.
adv
adj
prep_phrase
verb
- (transitive) To murder.
- (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- To dismiss or discharge from office.
- (transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
- (transitive) To delete.
- (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- remove from a position or an office
- dispose of
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- stay away or leave
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- get rid of something abstract
- cause to leave
noun
- (cooking, now chiefly historical) A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
- (British) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
- The act of removing something.
- The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
- (figurative, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
- A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
- (figurative, by extension) State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.
- Distance in time or space; interval.
- degree of figurative distance or separation
noun
- the shedding of blood resulting in murder
- a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
- coagulated blood from a wound
- Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
- (surveying, chiefly US) A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
- A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.
- A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
- An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
- The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, or an equivalent section of a spherical or dome-shaped object in general.ᵂᵖ
- (heraldry) A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, starting respectively from the middle base corner and one of the two chief corners and meeting in the fess point.
- (obsolete except in dialects) Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
- A sign immediately adjacent to an exit from a roadway identifying it as an exit, optionally with the exit's identification number.
- A projecting point.
- Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
verb
noun
- (slang) A murder.
- The act of briskly inhaling by the nose; a sniff, a snort.
- Resentment or skepticism expressed by quickly drawing air through the nose; snuffling; sniffling.
- (attributive, slang) A film or video clip which involves a real non-acted murder.
- Finely ground or pulverized tobacco (or other plant derivative) intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.
- A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.
- Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue.
- The burning part of a candle wick, or the black, burnt remains of a wick (which must be periodically removed).
- the charred portion of a candlewick
- sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose
- finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose
- a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time
verb
- (slang) To snuff out; to extinguish; to put out; to kill.
- To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated.
- To inhale through the nose.
- To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offence.
- sniff or smell inquiringly
- inhale (something) through the nose
adj
noun
- a person who murders their brother or sister
- fire that injures or kills an ally
- the murder of your sibling
- (military, by extension) The intentional or unintentional killing of a comrade in arms.
- The killing of one's brother (or sister).
- A person who commits fratricide.
- (military, by extension) The undesirable situation where the separate missiles from a MIRV interfere with each other as they explode.
noun
noun
- The act of killing.
- (New York) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
- (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
- (military, gaming, countable) An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
- Specifically, the death blow.
- The result of killing; that which has been killed.
- (rare) Alternative form of kiln.
- the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
- the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal
- the act of terminating a life
verb
- (transitive or intransitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
- (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
- (transitive) To render inoperative.
- (transitive) To use up or to waste.
- (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
- (slang) To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
- (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- (transitive, sports) To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- (transitive, figuratively, informal) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
- (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- (transitive) To force a company out of business.
- (metallurgy) To deadmelt.
- (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
- (reflexive, informal) To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
- deprive of life
- hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
- tire out completely
- thwart the passage of
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration
- end or extinguish by forceful means
- drink down entirely
- be the source of great pain for
- cause to cease operating
- cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
- be fatal
- destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
- cause the death of, without intention
noun
adj
verb
adv
verb
- murder in a planned fashion
- put in effect
- carry out the legalities of
- carry out or perform an action
- carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment
- sign in the presence of witnesses
- (transitive) To perform.
- (transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
- (transitive, law) To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.
- (intransitive, computing) To run, usually successfully.
- (transitive, computing) To start, launch, or run.
- (transitive) To kill, especially as punishment for a capital crime.
noun
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
- (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- (figuratively) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- the act of contacting one thing with another
- a connection made via the internet to another website
- a conspicuous success
- (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
- a dose of a narcotic drug
- a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
- (baseball) when a batter strikes a pitched ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense)
adj
pron
verb
- (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- (transitive) To affect negatively.
- (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
- (figurative, ambitransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- (figuratively) To attack.
- (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
- (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- (transitive, colloquial) To switch on or switch off (lights).
- (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
- (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
- (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- (transitive, music, informal) To commence playing.
- (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) To work out.
- (intransitive) To strike against something.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- hit the intended target or goal
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
- drive something violently into a location
- cause to move by striking
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
- encounter by chance
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
noun
- the act of killing
- the absence of life or state of being dead
- the event of dying or departure from life
- the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
- a final state
- the time when something ends
- the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
- (often capitalized) The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
- (preceded by the) The collapse or end of something.
- The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
- Execution (in the judicial sense).
- (figuratively, especially followed by of-phrase) A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).
- (figurative) Spiritual lifelessness.
noun
- a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
- (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties
- One who liquidates.
- One supporting the political policy of liquidationism; a liquidationist.
- Any of the workers involved in cleaning up the Chernobyl disaster
noun
- (countable) A person who kills another.
- (uncountable, US) The department within a police force that investigates cases of homicide.
- (countable, uncountable, crime) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
- (countable, US, police jargon) A victim of homicide; a person who has been unlawfully killed by someone else.
- the killing of a human being by another human being
verb
noun
- (algebra, somewhat humorous) An associated prime of a module.
- Someone who intentionally kills a person, especially a professional who kills a public or political figure.
- (historical, usually capitalized) A member of the Nizari Ismaili Muslim community of the Alamut Period.
- Any ruthless killer.
- a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed
- a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders
noun
- a brutal indiscriminate murderer
- a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
- a retailer of meat
- someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
- (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
- A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
- (figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
verb
- kill (animals) usually for food consumption
- (intransitive) To work as a butcher.
- (transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
- (transitive) To kill brutally.
- (transitive) To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition.
- (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
adj
noun
- (law, chiefly US, Canada) An act that constitutes the crime of second-degree murder.
- (law, chiefly US, Canada) The criminal offence of murder in a form defined as less serious than first-degree murder; the precise distinction may vary by jurisdiction but typically involves second-degree murder being intentional but not premeditated.
noun
- the shedding of blood resulting in murder
- a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
- coagulated blood from a wound
- Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
- (surveying, chiefly US) A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
- A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.
- A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
- An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
- The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, or an equivalent section of a spherical or dome-shaped object in general.ᵂᵖ
- (heraldry) A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, starting respectively from the middle base corner and one of the two chief corners and meeting in the fess point.
- (obsolete except in dialects) Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
- A sign immediately adjacent to an exit from a roadway identifying it as an exit, optionally with the exit's identification number.
- A projecting point.
- Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
verb
noun
- (slang) A murder.
- The act of briskly inhaling by the nose; a sniff, a snort.
- Resentment or skepticism expressed by quickly drawing air through the nose; snuffling; sniffling.
- (attributive, slang) A film or video clip which involves a real non-acted murder.
- Finely ground or pulverized tobacco (or other plant derivative) intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.
- A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.
- Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue.
- The burning part of a candle wick, or the black, burnt remains of a wick (which must be periodically removed).
- the charred portion of a candlewick
- sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose
- finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose
- a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time
verb
- (slang) To snuff out; to extinguish; to put out; to kill.
- To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated.
- To inhale through the nose.
- To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offence.
- sniff or smell inquiringly
- inhale (something) through the nose
adj
noun
- a person who murders their brother or sister
- fire that injures or kills an ally
- the murder of your sibling
- (military, by extension) The intentional or unintentional killing of a comrade in arms.
- The killing of one's brother (or sister).
- A person who commits fratricide.
- (military, by extension) The undesirable situation where the separate missiles from a MIRV interfere with each other as they explode.
noun
noun
- The act of killing.
- (New York) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
- (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
- (military, gaming, countable) An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
- Specifically, the death blow.
- The result of killing; that which has been killed.
- (rare) Alternative form of kiln.
- the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
- the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal
- the act of terminating a life
verb
- (transitive or intransitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
- (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
- (transitive) To render inoperative.
- (transitive) To use up or to waste.
- (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
- (slang) To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
- (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- (transitive, sports) To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- (transitive, figuratively, informal) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
- (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- (transitive) To force a company out of business.
- (metallurgy) To deadmelt.
- (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
- (reflexive, informal) To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
- deprive of life
- hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
- tire out completely
- thwart the passage of
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration
- end or extinguish by forceful means
- drink down entirely
- be the source of great pain for
- cause to cease operating
- cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
- be fatal
- destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
- cause the death of, without intention
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
- (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- (figuratively) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- the act of contacting one thing with another
- a connection made via the internet to another website
- a conspicuous success
- (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
- a dose of a narcotic drug
- a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
- (baseball) when a batter strikes a pitched ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense)
adj
pron
verb
- (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- (transitive) To affect negatively.
- (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
- (figurative, ambitransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- (figuratively) To attack.
- (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
- (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- (transitive, colloquial) To switch on or switch off (lights).
- (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
- (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
- (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- (transitive, music, informal) To commence playing.
- (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) To work out.
- (intransitive) To strike against something.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- hit the intended target or goal
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
- drive something violently into a location
- cause to move by striking
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
- encounter by chance
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
noun
- the act of killing
- the absence of life or state of being dead
- the event of dying or departure from life
- the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
- a final state
- the time when something ends
- the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
- (often capitalized) The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
- (preceded by the) The collapse or end of something.
- The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
- Execution (in the judicial sense).
- (figuratively, especially followed by of-phrase) A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).
- (figurative) Spiritual lifelessness.
noun
- a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
- (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties
- One who liquidates.
- One supporting the political policy of liquidationism; a liquidationist.
- Any of the workers involved in cleaning up the Chernobyl disaster
noun
- (countable) A person who kills another.
- (uncountable, US) The department within a police force that investigates cases of homicide.
- (countable, uncountable, crime) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
- (countable, US, police jargon) A victim of homicide; a person who has been unlawfully killed by someone else.
- the killing of a human being by another human being
noun
- a brutal indiscriminate murderer
- a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
- a retailer of meat
- someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
- (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
- A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
- (figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
verb
- kill (animals) usually for food consumption
- (intransitive) To work as a butcher.
- (transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
- (transitive) To kill brutally.
- (transitive) To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition.
- (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
adj
verb
- (transitive) To murder.
- (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- To dismiss or discharge from office.
- (transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
- (transitive) To delete.
- (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- remove from a position or an office
- dispose of
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- stay away or leave
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- get rid of something abstract
- cause to leave
noun
- (cooking, now chiefly historical) A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
- (British) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
- The act of removing something.
- The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
- (figurative, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
- A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
- (figurative, by extension) State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.
- Distance in time or space; interval.
- degree of figurative distance or separation
verb
- murder in a planned fashion
- put in effect
- carry out the legalities of
- carry out or perform an action
- carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment
- sign in the presence of witnesses
- (transitive) To perform.
- (transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
- (transitive, law) To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.
- (intransitive, computing) To run, usually successfully.
- (transitive, computing) To start, launch, or run.
- (transitive) To kill, especially as punishment for a capital crime.
verb
noun
- (algebra, somewhat humorous) An associated prime of a module.
- Someone who intentionally kills a person, especially a professional who kills a public or political figure.
- (historical, usually capitalized) A member of the Nizari Ismaili Muslim community of the Alamut Period.
- Any ruthless killer.
- a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed
- a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders