Synonyms of murdered

murdered

verb

past tense of murder

1

as in assassinated

to put to death deliberately

those people made me so mad I felt like I wanted to murder them

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assassinated
• executed
• killed
• slaughtered
• dispatched
• got
• neutralized
• destroyed
• snuffed
• liquidated
• offed
• slew
• whacked
• terminated
• put away
• croaked
• knocked off
• iced
• took out
• did in
• bumped off
• rubbed out
• did away with
• massacred
• claimed
• butchered
• shot
• cut down
• shot down
• eliminated
• felled
• exterminated
• eradicated
• carried off
• blotted out
• smote
• annihilated
• blew away
• wiped out
• zapped
• mowed (down)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• raised
• restored
• revived
• animated
• resurrected
• resuscitated

2

as in fumbled

to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way

we listened in horror as she murdered our favorite song on stage

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fumbled
• blew
• butchered
• ruined
• dubbed
• destroyed
• mangled
• bungled
• booted
• botched
• spoiled
• injured
• fouled up
• screwed up
• muffed
• marred
• fluffed
• boggled
• damaged
• buggered (up)
• flubbed
• mutilated
• wrecked
• bobbled
• bumbled
• mucked up
• goofed (up)
• messed (up)
• harmed
• foozled
• hurt
• impaired
• blundered
• loused up
• flawed
• muddled
• bollixed (up)
• blighted
• gummed (up)
• blemished
• vitiated
• mismanaged
• piffled
• mishandled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• improved
• helped
• reformed
• enhanced
• refined
• remedied
• rectified
• bettered
• ameliorated
• repaired
• renovated
• fixed
• meliorated
• doctored
• patched
• reconditioned
• revamped

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of murdered

In the series, a bachelorette weekend turns deadly when the bride (Jenner) winds up murdered in the pool, and her closest girlfriends all become suspects. — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026

Her sister's husband, her brother-in-law, Yagev Buchshtab however, had been murdered by the terrorists. — Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026

The song is about a true story of three Dutch teenage girls in World War II, during the occupation, who seduced Nazi officers and murdered them in the woods. — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026

She’d been brutally murdered, and Icelandic police needed to know why. — HubSpot, 1 Oct. 2026

Matheson's 22-year-old daughter, Molly Jane, was raped and murdered in 2017. — Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 30 Sep. 2026

His global reputation was built primarily on serving as the family lawyer, after his cousin Jamal, the journalist, was so brutally murdered by the regime in Riyadh. — Noah Shachtman, Vanity Fair, 29 Sep. 2026

Prosecutors allege Flynn murdered his wife, Ashley, and staged the crime scene, pointing to his affair with a fellow worship leader at his church as a motive for the killing. — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026

Petruzzi argued that knowing about an effort to remove a president was not the same as knowing he would be murdered. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026