Japanese word senses marked with topical category "Murder"
Parent categories: Crime, Death, Violence, Criminal law, Society, Body, Life, Human behaviour, Law, Nature, Human, Justice
Total 31 word senses
- 他殺 (Noun) homicide, murder or manslaughter
- 兇行 (Noun) Alternative form of 凶行
- 凶行 (Noun) murder or other violent crime
- 刺客 (Noun) Synonym of 暗殺者 (ansatsusha, “assassin”)
- 密室殺人 (Noun) a locked-room murder (murder in a room locked from the inside)
- 弑逆 (Noun) regicide
- 弑逆 (Noun) regicide
- 暗殺 (Verb) to assassinate
- 暗殺者 (Noun) assassin
- 死の行軍 (Noun) death march (forced movement of people)
- 死の行進 (Noun) death march (forced movement of people)
- 殺し (Noun) murder
- 殺し屋 (Noun) hitman; contract killer
- 殺す (Verb) to kill, to put to death
- 殺人 (Noun) homicide, especially murder
- 殺人者 (Noun) a murderer
- 殺人鬼 (Noun) bloodthirsty killer
- 殺気 (Noun) killing intent; bloodthirst; bloodlust
- 王殺し (Noun) regicide
- 見立て殺人 (Noun) an allusive murder (murder arranged in a way that alludes to something else, such as an idea, a story, a fictitious scenario, etc.)
- 親殺し (Noun) killing of parent(s)
- 辻斬り (Noun) The killing of a passerby on the road at night, in order to test the sharpness of a sword, or to improve one’s skill.
- 辻斬り (Noun) One who kills someone such
- あやめる (Verb) 危める: to wound
- あやめる (Verb) 危める, 殺める: to kill
- いころす (Verb) to shoot to death
- うちころす (Verb) 打ち殺す, 打殺す, 撃ち殺す, 撃殺す, 射ち殺す, 射殺す: to kill by shooting
- しめころす (Verb) to strangle to death
- ぶちころす (Verb) to beat to death
- みなごろし (Noun) massacre; slaughter
- ポア (Noun) phowa, a Tibetan Buddhist term appropriated by the Aum Shinrikyo cult to refer to killing someone to save them from bad karma
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