homicide

[ hom-uh-sahyd, hoh-muh- ]

SEE DEFINITION OF homicide

nounkilling

Synonyms for homicide

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Antonyms for homicide

birth

manslaughter

noun. killing without malicious forethought

Word Origin & History

"the killing of another person," early 13c., from Old French homicide, from Latin homicidium "manslaughter," from homo "man" (see homunculus) + -cidium "act of killing" (see -cide). The meaning "person who kills another" (late 14c.) also is from French, from Latin homicida "a murderer," from -cida "killer."

Example Sentences forhomicide

How would an upright woman answer a man whom she had just saved from homicide?

Homicide forms 91% of the criminality of this group of offenders.

I knew a planter in Negros Island who was charged with homicide.

You think the interest of the love-business will detract from the interest of the homicide's fate?

"You seem to assume that this is a homicide case," I mentioned.

In due season, then, Anse Dugmore was brought up on a charge of homicide.

Whether justifiable or not, that was the fashion of the homicide.

She meant to defend the boy from him if it resulted in homicide.

And here too the talk of the hour was the homicide at Black Hall.

I am a homicide morally, no matter what the law may countenance.

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