homicide

IPA: hˈɑmʌsaɪd

(countable, uncountable, crime) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
(countable) A person who kills another.
(countable, US, police jargon) A victim of homicide; a person who has been unlawfully killed by someone else.
(uncountable, US) The department within a police force that investigates cases of homicide.

Examples of "homicide" in Sentences

Not every kind of homicide is equally culpable, after all.
But the guidelines emphasize that the term "homicide" is neutral.
MERIDIAN -- Meridian Police are investigating what they call a homicide near the intersection of Eagle and Ustick.
None of the participants yet realize how convoluted and complex the motive for the homicide is and how dangerous trying to prove it will be.
What brings him to this crossroads and has entangled him in a homicide is the tale of a child who becomes a man driven to do extraordinary things.
"The Office of the Chief M.dical Examiner uses the term homicide to mean a death at the hands of another," explained the M. E.'s attorney, Jacqueline Faherty.
Dr. MURPHY: We are seeing a few more incidences of what we call homicide-suicides, where someone takes the life of their significant other and then their own life.
These are the words Carroll Ann Ellis uses to open the biweekly meeting of the homicide support group in Fairfax County, Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C. The term homicide survivor may appear, at first, tobe an oxymoron; by definition of the crime, the victim does not survive.