| 单词 | homicide |
| 释义 | homicide (once / 2239 pages) n The noun homicide means a murder. If you kill another person, you are committing a homicide. The level of the homicide is legally defined as murder if the act was intentional and as manslaughter if it was unintentional. Remember the meaning of homicide by remembering that cide, from the Latin cida, refers to killing, while the Latin homo means "man.” So homicide means “killing a man.” You can see another example in this quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes: “Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide — that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life — are alike forbidden.” WORD FAMILYhomicide: homicidal, homicides+/homicidal: homicidally USAGE EXAMPLESAn armed forces medical examiner categorized the death as a homicide. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) About 60 percent of last year’s homicide victims were shot to death and more than one-quarter of them were related to domestic violence. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The newspaper reports that is the second year in a row, and only the second time since the 1990s, that the city surpassed 300 homicides. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) n the killing of a human being by another human being Exp|Hypo|Hyper Alamo a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico Battle of the Little Bighorna battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command honor killing an ancient tradition still sometimes observed; a male member of the family kills a female relative for tarnishing the family image manslaughterhomicide without malice aforethought execution, murder, slayingunlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being shootingkilling someone by gunfire drive-by killinghomicide committed by shooting from a moving automobile assassinationmurder of a public figure by surprise attack bloodshed, gorethe shedding of blood resulting in murder chance-medleyan unpremeditated killing of a human being in self defense contract killinga murder carried out on agreement with a hired killer parricidethe murder of your own father or mother mariticidethe murder of a husband by his wife fratricidethe murder of your sibling uxoricidethe murder of a wife by her husband filicidethe murder of your own son or daughter elimination, liquidationthe murder of a competitor butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughterthe savage and excessive killing of many people lynchingputting a person to death by mob action without due process of law regicidethe act of killing a king drive-by shootingshooting someone from a car as it is driven past the victim wing shootingshooting game birds that are flying (on the wing) dry-gulchingthe act of killing from ambush hita murder carried out by an underworld syndicate infanticidemurdering an infant shoot-downmurder by shooting someone down in cold blood tyrannicidekilling a tyrant thuggeemurder and robbery by thugs kill, killing, putting to death the act of terminating a life |
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