What does Homicide mean?
Definitions for Homicide
ˈhɒm əˌsaɪd, ˈhoʊ mə-homi·cide
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Princeton's WordNet
homicidenoun
the killing of a human being by another human being
Wiktionary
homicidenoun
The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
homicidenoun
A person who kills another.
homicidenoun
A victim of homicide; a person who has been unlawfully killed by someone else.
Etymology: From homicida and homicidium.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Homicidenoun
Etymology: homicide, French; homicidium, Latin.
The apostles command to abstain from blood: construe this according to the law of nature, and it will seem, that homicide only is forbidden; but construe it in reference to the law of the Jews, about which the question was, and it shall easily appear to have a clean other sense, and a truer, when we expound it of eating, and not of shedding blood. Richard Hooker, b. iv.
What wonder is’t that black detraction thrives!
The homicide of names is less than lives. Dryden.Your beauty, that did haunt me in my sleep,
To undertake the death of all the world,
So might I live one hour in your sweet bosom.
———— If I thought that, I tell thee, homicide,
These nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks. William Shakespeare.Hector comes, the homicide, to wield
His conqu’ring arms, with corps to strew the field. Dryden.
Wikipedia
Homicide
Homicide occurs when a person kills another person. A homicide requires only a volitional act or omission that causes the death of another, and thus a homicide may result from accidental, reckless, or negligent acts even if there is no intent to cause harm. Homicides can be divided into many overlapping legal categories, such as murder, manslaughter, justifiable homicide, assassination, killing in war (either following the laws of war or as a war crime), euthanasia, and capital punishment, depending on the circumstances of the death. These different types of homicides are often treated very differently in human societies; some are considered crimes, while others are permitted or even ordered by the legal system.
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homicide
Homicide is the act of one human killing another. It can be a legal or illegal action depending on the circumstances, such as self-defense or murder. Homicides include both non-criminal cases (like justifiable self-defense) and criminal cases (like murder or manslaughter), and the intent or the circumstances surrounding the act often determine how it is legally categorized.
Webster Dictionary
Homicideverb
the killing of one human being by another
Homicideverb
one who kills another; a manslayer
Etymology: [F., fr. L. homicidium, fr. homicida a man slayer; homo man + caedere to cut, kill. See Homage, and cf. Concise, Shed, v. t.]
Wikidata
Homicide
Homicide is an act of a human killing another human.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Homicide
hom′i-sīd, n. manslaughter: one who kills another.—adj. Hom′icidal, pertaining to homicide: murderous: bloody. [Fr.,—L. homicidium—homo, a man, cædĕre, to kill.]
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Homicide
The killing of one person by another.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Homicide in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Homicide in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of Homicide in a Sentence
Ross County Prosecutor Matt Schmidt:
At this point, there’s no smoking gun that says, ‘Hey, we’ve got a serial killer on the loose,’ we have missing people and we have a homicide. There are certainly people talking in the community and people that are upset and understandably concerned about that. When there are those concerns, we don’t rule that out. We have to keep an open mind to the possibilities, but the evidence is going to dictate where we go with the investigation.
This is a justifiable homicide all day long. You have the right protect yourself.
We are never going to solve this crisis if we have to wait for it to personally affect us or our neighborhood or our community before we demand action, i have seen what the carnage creates in communities like mine, because we forget -- national shootings, these mass shootings are tragedies, but the majority of the homicide victims come from neighborhoods like mine.
Cydney Ireland said. The sprawling, 58,000-student main campus in downtown Columbus is one of the nation's largest. Fox News contributor Rod Wheeler, a former Washington DC homicide detective and an Ohio State University alum, said the school's police department is highly trained. People don’t need to panic.
Shootings can leave victims with permanent physical and emotional disabilities, including symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, the survivors of homicide never move on completely from their devastating loses. Bullets in the air leave permanent pain in the heart and create ripples of sorrow in families and communities that affect generations to come.
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- قتلArabic
- homicidiCatalan, Valencian
- Totschlag, Mörder, Mord, TötungsdeliktGerman
- ανθρωποκτόνος, ανθρωποκτονίαGreek
- murdoEsperanto
- homicidio, homicidaSpanish
- murhaaja, tappaja, murhattu, surmattu, murha, tappo, tapettuFinnish
- morð, drápFaroese
- assassinat, meutrier, meurtre, homicide involontaire, meutrière, assassin, homicideFrench
- homicidioGalician
- मानव हत्याHindi
- մարդասպանություն, սպանություն, մարդասպանArmenian
- manndrápIcelandic
- omicidio, omicida, omicidio colposo, assassinio, assassina, assassino, omicidio premeditatoItalian
- 殺人者, 殺人, 人殺しJapanese
- 살인, 殺人Korean
- homicīdium, homicīdaLatin
- slepkavībaLatvian
- doodslag, moordDutch
- drapsmann, morder, drapNorwegian
- zabójstwo, morderczyni, mordercaPolish
- homicídio, homicidaPortuguese
- omucidereRomanian
- убийца, убийствоRussian
- ubica, убиство, ubojica, umor, умор, убојица, уморство, убоство, umórstvo, ùbōjstvo, убица, ubistvoSerbo-Croatian
- morilka, morilec, umorSlovene
- mordoffer, mördare, mordSwedish
- قتلUrdu
- 殺人Chinese
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