v. 1
To defeat decisively.
Our team is going to murder them.
v. 2
To illegally kill (a person or persons) with intent, especially with predetermination
The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband.
n. 1
A flock of crows or sometimes ravens.
A murder of crows dotted my backyard.
n. 2
An act of killing a person unlawfully, especially with predetermination.
There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone.

Related words

Word family: murderball murderer murder-for-hire murderous murderously
Phrases: mass murder first-degree murder depraved-heart murder depraved-indifference murder lust murder murder one scream bloody murder scream blue murder
Is a kind of: flock

Forms

Plural: murders → homicides, assassinations, manslaughters, conspiracies…
Past participle: murdered
e.g. murdered → slain, removed, dispatched, offed…

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

2 letters: do¹
3 letters: off¹, top¹, hit¹, mar¹
4 letters: kill¹, slay¹, offn
5 letters: spoil¹, flock¹
6 letters: remove², thrash¹, mangle²
7 letters: killing², butcher², slaying², carnage², trounce¹
8 letters: massacre³, dispatch², homicide³, murderer³, despatch, butchery³, mutilate³
9 letters: execution⁴, slaughter², bloodshed²
10 letters: conspiracy⁴, unkindness
11 letters: destruction³, assassinate⁴
12 letters: manslaughter³
13 letters: assassination⁵

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (remove² = 2 syllables).