(countable, uncountable, crime) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
Used in a Sentence
homicide
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for homicide.
Editorial note
In another comment you said that one homicide should be punished by death in the exact same form.
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Quick take
(countable, uncountable, crime) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of homicide gathered in one view.
(countable) A person who kills another.
(countable, US, police jargon) A victim of homicide; a person who has been unlawfully killed by someone else.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for homicide.
noun
(countable, uncountable, crime) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
noun
(countable) A person who kills another.
noun
(countable, US, police jargon) A victim of homicide; a person who has been unlawfully killed by someone else.
noun
(uncountable, US) The department within a police force that investigates cases of homicide.
Example sentences
In another comment you said that one homicide should be punished by death in the exact same form.
In the US, most homicide victims are killed by another person of their own race, not by the police.
Our outlier high gun homicide rate is dependent on our extremely high number of guns easily available to commit those homicides.
Also: the coroner's office is independent of the police and makes the determination of homicide.
Simply put, homicide can be constructed to include suicides as well as accidental deaths.
And if the victim has life insurance, reporting a homicide as a suicide has insurance consequences, the family would provide resistance to.
Our examination involved detailed accounts of more than 12,000 police homicides stretching from 1980 to 2012 contained in the FBI's Supplementary Homicide Report.
Most vehicular crime isn't homicide, it's acquisitive - people will attack vehicle security systems to steal the car, or get access to valuable contents.
Amongst those convicted of homicide, it is nowhere near that.
Anyone happen to have a list of similar homicide exploration tools for other major cities?) Note: I'm not trying to rag on Baltimore.
It has below average homicide and violent crime rates.
Our homicide rate is almost double that of Bangladesh.
Quote examples
Meanwhile, the New Yorker is oddly mute on the 120+ “homicide-related offenses” known to be committed by persons illegally present in the USA (and pending deportation who were released anyway) in the past 5 years alone...
I should have just wrote "homicide" instead of "murder".
They're not technically academic works, but I consider David Simon's books "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets" and "The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood" (co-written with Edward Burns) to be in the category of such studies.
So men are more heavily represented in engineering, physics, mathematics, etc, but they're also more frequently mentally retarded, homeless, die of homicide, commit suicide, and wind up incarcerated - general "failing" type things.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use homicide in a sentence?
In another comment you said that one homicide should be punished by death in the exact same form.
What does homicide mean?
(countable, uncountable, crime) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
What part of speech is homicide?
homicide is commonly used as noun.