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HOMICIDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The killing of a human being by another human being
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("homicide" is a kind of...):
kill; killing; putting to death (the act of terminating a life)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "homicide"):
honor killing (an ancient tradition still sometimes observed; a male member of the family kills a female relative for tarnishing the family image)
manslaughter (homicide without malice aforethought)
execution; murder; slaying (unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being)
shooting (killing someone by gunfire)
Derivation:
homicidal (characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being)
