manslaughter
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7.5
- noun
- /ˈmænˌslɔːtər/
- Specialized
:
homicidio involuntario
- The jury deliberated for hours before finding him guilty of manslaughter instead of murder.
- involuntary manslaughter
- voluntary manslaughter
- charged with manslaughter
OK, so he's charged with involuntary manslaughter for the shooting of.
- OK, so he's charged with involuntary manslaughter for the shooting of.
- So my main charge was murder and my conviction was manslaughter, loss of control.
- And it's and it begins with vehicular manslaughter.
- I'm not a fan of anyone that gets away with vehicular manslaughter.
- Are those who promote such falsehoods indirectly guilty of murder or perhaps of manslaughter?
- So, yeah, sort of took it to manslaughter because he says he's running the gun.
- And all, it's all it was is fireworks or, you know, no manslaughter.
Examples
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In Boston, Ginger Twitchell, 34, and David Twitchell, 35, were found guilty of manslaughter by a jury.
Academic text (1990) -
Yes, the officer who killed Dante Wright was charged with second degree manslaughter just today.
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At best, the defense would be a charge of manslaughter.
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When it's an accident, they call it manslaughter.
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I did some time for manslaughter.
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Last time I checked, six counts of manslaughter is life in prison.
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Rosemary Jones, you've been found guilty for the crime of manslaughter.
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A superior court judge had allowed him to plead guilty to a charge of second-degree manslaughter.
Fiction book (2000) -
Although the jury acquitted Nichols of murder, it convicted him of manslaughter and conspiracy.
Academic text (2002) -
Yanez was charged with second-degree involuntary manslaughter and was acquitted of all charges.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
914
6.1
The killing of one person by another
How Intentional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Manslaughter comes from the two parts man and slaughter, where man means 'person' and slaughter means 'killing', so it originally meant 'killing a person'. In law, manslaughter now means killing someone without intending to kill them, so it is not the same as murder.