murder vs tort

murder

noun
  • The act of deliberate killing of a person or other being without moral justification, especially with malice aforethought. 

  • Something terrible to endure. 

  • A group of crows; the collective noun for crows. 

  • The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human. 

  • The crime of deliberately killing a person without moral justification. 

verb
  • To botch or mangle. 

  • To devour, ravish. 

  • To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody). 

  • To defeat decisively. 

  • To deliberately kill (a person or persons) without justification, especially with malice aforethought. 

tort

noun
  • A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages. 

adj
  • Synonym of tart (“sharp- or sour-tasting; (figuratively) keen, severe, sharp”) 

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