homicide
noun
[ ˈhɒmɪsʌɪd ]
• the killing of one person by another.
• "he was charged with homicide"
Similar:
murder,
killing,
assassination,
liquidation,
extermination,
execution,
slaughter,
butchery,
massacre,
manslaughter,
patricide,
matricide,
parricide,
fratricide,
sororicide,
filicide,
infanticide,
uxoricide,
regicide,
slaying,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French, from Latin homicidium, from homo, homin- ‘man’.
