[
  {
    "word": "murder",
    "phonetic": "/\u02c8m\u025c\u02d0d\u0259(\u0279)/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8m\u025c\u02d0d\u0259(\u0279)/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/murder-uk.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91894805",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0"
        }
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8m\u025d.d\u025a/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/murder-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1231900",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "The crime of deliberately killing another person without justification.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The defendant was charged with murder."
          },
          {
            "definition": "The act of deliberate killing of another person or other being without justification, especially with malice aforethought.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone."
          },
          {
            "definition": "(in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "This headache is murder."
          },
          {
            "definition": "(collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "assassination",
          "homicide",
          "manslaughter",
          "flock"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To deliberately kill (a person or persons) without justification, especially with malice aforethought.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To defeat decisively.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Our team is going to murder them."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one\u2019s anger at somebody).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "He's torn my best shirt. When I see him, I'll murder him!"
          },
          {
            "definition": "To botch or mangle.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To devour, ravish.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I could murder a hamburger right now."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "thrash",
          "trounce",
          "wipe the floor with",
          "assassinate",
          "kill",
          "massacre",
          "slaughter",
          "kill"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/murder"
    ]
  }
]