murder
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noun- 1.
(uncountable)The crime of killing a person unlawfully, especially with predetermination.
The defendant was charged with murder.
- 2.
(countable)The act of killing a person (or sometimes another being) unlawfully, especially with predetermination
There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone.
- 3.
(uncountable)(uncountable, used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.
This headache is murder.
- 4.
(collective, countable)A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
- 5.
(countable, dated, slang, uncountable)(dated slang) Something remarkable or impressive.
- 6.
(countable, nonstandard, uncountable)a murderer
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verb- 1.
To illegally kill (a person or persons) with intent, especially with predetermination
The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband.
- 2.
(colloquial, excessive, figuratively, transitive)(transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To defeat decisively.
Our team is going to murder them.
- 3.
(colloquial, excessive, figuratively)(figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
He's torn my best shirt. When I see him, I'll murder him!
- 4.
To botch or mangle.
- 5.
(British, colloquial, figuratively)To devour, ravish.
I could murder a hamburger right now.
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ine-pro From Middle English murder, murdre, mourdre, alteration of earlier murthre (murder) (see murther), from Old English morþor (secret slaying, unlawful killing) and myrþra, both from *morþr, from Proto-Germanic *murþrą (death, killing, murder), from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tro- (killing), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *mor-, *mr̥- (to die).