[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Law.the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arsonfirst-degree murder, ormurder one,and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditationsecond-degree murder, ormurder two.", "Slang.something extremely difficult or perilous:That final exam was murder!", "a group or flock of crows."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["Law.to kill by an act constituting murder.", "to kill or slaughter inhumanly or barbarously.", "to spoil or mar by bad performance, representation, pronunciation, etc.:The tenor murdered the aria."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to commit murder."]}]