The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the crime of killing a person with malice aforethought or with recklessness manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life, countable A group of crows; the collective noun for crows, uncountable, law The commission of any act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a person, verb_ To botch or mangle, kill intentionally and with premeditation, To botch or mangle, transitive verb_ To destroy; to put an end to, To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See murder, n, To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle, intransitive verb_ To commit murder, To spoil by ineptness; mutilate, To kill brutally or inhumanly