manslaughter
pronunciation
How to pronounce manslaughter in British English:
UK [ˈmænslɔ:tə(r)]
How to pronounce manslaughter in American English:
US [ˈmænˌslɔtɚ]
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- Noun:
- homicide without malice aforethought
Word Origin
- manslaughter (n.)
- mid-14c., " act, crime, or sin of killing another human being," in battle or not, from man (n.) + slaughter (n.). Replaced Old English mannslæht (Anglian), mannslieht (West Saxon), from slæht, slieht "act of killing" (see slay). Etymologically identical with homicide, but in legal use usually distinguished from murder and restricted to "simple homicide."
Synonym
Example
- 1. But convicting the scientists of manslaughter was the wrong decision .
- 2. Schettino is accused of multiple manslaughter , causing a shipwreck by sailing too close to shore and abandoning ship before all his passengers and crew scrambled off .
- 3. Instead , her arrest last month on suspicion of voluntary manslaughter erupted into an online furor that turned her into a national hero and reverberated all the way to china 's capital , where censors ordered incendiary comments banned .
- 4. Prosecutors charged murray with involuntary manslaughter .
- 5. Now pc harwood risks being charged with manslaughter .