Criminal vs Murder - What's the difference?
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Being against the law; forbidden by law.
* Addison
Guilty of breaking the law.
* Rogers
Of or relating to crime or penal law.
* Hallam
(figuratively) Abhorrent or very undesirable, even if allowed by law.
A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=3 (label) An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.
*{{quote-book, year=1927, author=
, chapter=4, title= * 1984 , Humphrey Carpenter, Mari Prichard, The Oxford companion to children's literature , page 275:
* 2003 , Paul Ruditis, Star Trek Voyager: Companion (ISBN 0743417518), page 131:
* 2011 , Carlene Brennen, Hemingway's Cats (ISBN 1561644897), page 161:
(label) The crime of deliberate killing of another human.
* {{quote-news, date=21 August 2012, author=Ed Pilkington, newspaper=The Guardian
, title= * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.
Something terrible to endure.
(label) A group of crows;
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* {{quote-book, 2001, (Daniel Handler), The Vile Village, isbn=0064408655, page=76
, passage=Without the murder of crows roosting in its branches, Nevermore Tree looked as bare as a skeleton.}}
To deliberately kill (a person or persons).
(transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial) To defeat decisively.
To botch or mangle
* {{quote-book, 1892, William Shepard Walsh, Handy-book of Literary Curiosities
, passage=Dr. Caius, the Frenchman in the play, and Evans the Welshman, "Gallia et Guallia," succeed pretty well in their efforts to murder the language.}}
(figuratively, colloquial) To kick someone's ass]] or [[chew out, chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
(figuratively, colloquial, British) to devour, ravish.
As nouns the difference between criminal and murder
is that criminal is a person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law while murder is (label) an act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.As an adjective criminal
is being against the law; forbidden by law.As a verb murder is
to deliberately kill (a person or persons).criminal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Foppish and fantastic ornaments are only indications of vice, not criminal in themselves.
- The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us criminal in the sight of God.
- The officers and servants of the crown, violating the personal liberty, or other right of the subject were in some cases liable to criminal process.
- His long criminal record suggests that he is a dangerous man.
- ''Printing such asinine opinions without rebuttal is criminal , even when not libel!
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "criminal" is often applied: law, justice, court, procedure, prosecution, intent, case, record, act, action, behavior, code, offence, liability, investigation, conduct, defense, trial, history, responsibility, lawyer, tribunal, appeal, process, background, mind, conspiracy, evidence, gang, organization, underworld, jurisprudence, offender, jury, police, past, group, punishment, attorney, violence, report, career, psychology.Synonyms
* illegalDerived terms
* criminal conversation * criminalisation * criminalist * criminalistics * criminality * criminalize * criminal law * criminal-law * criminally * criminal negligence * criminalness * criminal-offence * criminal offence * criminal procedure * criminal recordNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’}}
Synonyms
* lawbreaker * offender * perpetrator * See alsomurder
English
(wikipedia murder)Noun
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder . It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
- It may be guessed, indeed, that this was the original form of the story, the fairy being the addition of those who considered Jack's thefts from (and murder of) the giant to be scarcely justified without her.
- Captain Sulu, who served under the legendary James T. Kirk for many years, disobeys Starfleet orders in order to try and help Kirk and another old shipmate, Dr. McCoy, who have been imprisoned for the murder of the Klingon chancellor.
- Dr. Herrera also knew Hemingway had held Batista's army personally responsible for the brutal murders of his dogs, Blackie (Black Dog) and Machakos.
Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?, passage=Reggie Clemons has one last chance to save his life. After 19 years on death row in Missouri for the murder of two young women, he has been granted a final opportunity to persuade a judge that he should be spared execution by lethal injection.}}
Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "murder": atrocious, attempted, brutal, cold-blooded, double, heinous, horrible, premeditated, triple, terrible, unsolved.Synonyms
* (act of deliberate killing) homicide, manslaughter, assassination * (group of crows) flockDerived terms
* attempted murder * cry blue murder * first-degree murder * get away with murder * mass murder * murderer * murderess * murder in the first degree * murder in the second degree * murderize * murder one * murderous * murdersome * murder weapon * murder will out * second-degree murder * wink murderVerb
(en verb)- The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband.
- Our team is going to murder them.
citation
- He's torn my best shirt. When I see him, I'll murder him!
- I could murder a hamburger right now.