The difference between Murder and Thrash

When used as nouns, murder means an act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human, whereas thrash means a beat or blow.

When used as verbs, murder means to deliberately kill (a person or persons), whereas thrash means to beat mercilessly.

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  1. Murder as a noun (countable):

    An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.

    Examples:

    "There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone."

  2. Murder as a noun (uncountable):

    The crime of deliberate killing of another human.

    Examples:

    "The defendant was charged with murder."

  3. Murder as a noun (uncountable, legal, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule):

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

  4. Murder as a noun (uncountable, used as a predicative noun):

    Something terrible to endure.

    Examples:

    "This headache is murder."

  5. Murder as a noun (countable, collective):

    A group of crows;

  1. Murder as a verb:

    To deliberately kill (a person or persons).

    Examples:

    "The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband."

  2. Murder as a verb (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic):

    To defeat decisively.

    Examples:

    "Our team is going to murder them."

  3. Murder as a verb:

    To botch or mangle.

  4. Murder as a verb (figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic):

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

    Examples:

    "He's torn my best shirt. When I see him, I'll murder him!"

  5. Murder as a verb (figuratively, colloquial, British):

    to devour, ravish.

    Examples:

    "I could murder a [[hamburger]] right now."

  1. Thrash as a verb:

    To beat mercilessly.

  2. Thrash as a verb:

    To defeat utterly.

  3. Thrash as a verb:

    To thresh.

  4. Thrash as a verb:

    To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.

  5. Thrash as a verb (software):

    To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.

  6. Thrash as a verb (computing):

    In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.

  1. Thrash as a noun:

    A beat or blow; the sound of beating.

  2. Thrash as a noun (music):

    A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking.

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