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Parricide

Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor.

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Execution 76% connected

The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.

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Liquidator 76% connected

One who, or that which, liquidates.

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Manslayer 76% connected

One who kills a human being; one who commits manslaughter.

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Murder 76% connected

The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.

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Murderer 76% connected

One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.

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Slaying 76% connected

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Matricide 76% connected

The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.

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Patricide 76% connected

The murderer of his father.

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Bail noun · 78% connection

(criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial; "the judge set ba…

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Bail bond noun · 78% connection

(criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial; "the judge set ba…

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Bond noun · 78% connection

(criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial; "the judge set ba…

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Charge noun · 78% connection

(criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense; "he was arrested on a charge of larceny"

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Complaint noun · 78% connection

(criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense; "he was arrested on a charge of larceny"

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Condemnation noun · 78% connection

(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise"

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Conviction noun · 78% connection

(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise"

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Crime noun · 78% connection

(criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act; "a long record of crimes"

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Criminal offence noun · 78% connection

(criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act; "a long record of crimes"

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Criminal offense noun · 78% connection

(criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act; "a long record of crimes"

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Insanity plea noun · 78% connection

(criminal law) a plea in which the defendant claims innocence due to mental incompetence at the time

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Judgment of conviction noun · 78% connection

(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise"

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Law-breaking noun · 78% connection

(criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act; "a long record of crimes"

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Partial verdict noun · 78% connection

(criminal law) a finding that the defendant is guilty of some charges but innocent of others

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Plea bargain noun · 78% connection

(criminal law) a negotiation in which the defendant agrees to enter a plea of guilty to a lesser charge and the prosecutor agrees to d…

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Plea bargaining noun · 78% connection

(criminal law) a negotiation in which the defendant agrees to enter a plea of guilty to a lesser charge and the prosecutor agrees to d…

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Plea of insanity noun · 78% connection

(criminal law) a plea in which the defendant claims innocence due to mental incompetence at the time

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Principal noun · 78% connection

(criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement

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Actinaria n. pl. · 78% connection

A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, a…

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Agnate adjective · 78% connection

Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor.

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Anagram noun · 78% connection

Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the tr…

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Ancestor noun · 78% connection

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

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Batrachia n. pl. · 78% connection

The order of amphibians which includes the frogs and toads; the Anura. Sometimes the word is used in a wider sense as equivalent to Am…

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Breathing noun · 78% connection

Also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when the glottis is wide o…

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Brother german unknown · 78% connection

A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only.

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Conferva noun · 78% connection

Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.

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Courser noun · 78% connection

A grallatorial bird of Europe (Cursorius cursor), remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to running…

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Father noun · 78% connection

A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural…

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Female noun · 78% connection

An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.

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Fermentation noun · 78% connection

The process of undergoing an effervescent change, as by the action of yeast; in a wider sense (Physiol. Chem.), the transformation of…

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Generation noun · 78% connection

A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the sa…

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Grandfather noun · 78% connection

A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.

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Grandmother noun · 78% connection

The mother of one's father or mother.

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