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S: (n) slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery (the savage and excessive killing of many people)

S: (n) murder, slaying, execution (unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being)

S: (n) assassination (murder of a public figure by surprise attack)
S: (n) bloodshed, gore (the shedding of blood resulting in murder) "he avenged the bloodshed of his kinsmen"
S: (n) contract killing (a murder carried out on agreement with a hired killer)
S: (n) parricide (the murder of your own father or mother)
S: (n) mariticide (the murder of a husband by his wife)
S: (n) fratricide (the murder of your sibling)
S: (n) uxoricide (the murder of a wife by her husband)
S: (n) filicide (the murder of your own son or daughter)
S: (n) elimination, liquidation (the murder of a competitor)
S: (n) slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery (the savage and excessive killing of many people)
S: (n) lynching (putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law)
S: (n) regicide (the act of killing a king)
S: (n) dry-gulching (the act of killing from ambush)
S: (n) hit (a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate) "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"
S: (n) infanticide (murdering an infant)
S: (n) shoot-down (murder by shooting someone down in cold blood)
S: (n) tyrannicide (killing a tyrant)
S: (n) thuggee (murder and robbery by thugs)