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involuntary manslaughter en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Reckless killing of a human being without malice aforethought and intention.
   • Ruth was prosecuted for involuntary manslaughter after she hit Tony with a car.
   • In 2003, Christopher Below was in an interrogation room at the Evansville Police Department when he admitted to Detective Scott Thomas of the Evansville Police Department that he had shot Kathern Fetzer in his apartment and disposed of the body in a commercial trash bin. Her remains were never recovered, and Below pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. 2026 August 6, Nicholas Muhoro, “An Ohio Teen Vanished During a One-Mile Drive in 1994. Her Locked Car Was Found Hours Later”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2026:

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Hyponyms

criminally negligent manslaughter (unlawful killing without malice aforethought) · constructive manslaughter (unlawful killing without malice aforethought)

Translations (8)

hu gondatlanságból elkövetett emberölés (unlawful killing of a human being without intent to do so) · ja 過失致死 (unlawful killing of a human being without intent to do so) · sv vållande till annans död (unlawful killing of a human being without intent to do so) · es homicidio imprudente (Esp., RD.) (unlawful killing of a human being without intent to do so) · es homicidio culposo (unlawful killing of a human being without intent to do so) · da uagtsomt manddrab (unlawful killing of a human being without intent to do so) · is manndráp (unlawful killing of a human being without intent to do so) · sv dödsvållande (unlawful killing of a human being without intent to do so)