Murder
['mɜːdə] or ['mɝdɚ]
Definition
(noun.) unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being.
(verb.) kill intentionally and with premeditation; 'The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered'.
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Definition
(n.) The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.
(n.) To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.
(n.) To destroy; to put an end to.
(n.) To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Homicide (with malice), slaughter, massacre, ASSASSINATION, butchery, MANSLAUGHTER.
v. a. Kill (with malice), slay, ASSASSINATE, despatch, put to death.
Editor: Margaret
Definition
n. the act of putting a person to death intentionally and from malice.—v.t. to commit murder: to destroy: to put an end to.—n. Mur′derer one who murders or is guilty of murder:—fem. Mur′deress.—adj. Mur′derous guilty of murder: consisting in or fond of murder: bloody: cruel.—adv. Mur′derously.—n. Mur′dress a battlement with interstices for firing through.—Murder in the first degree murder with deliberation and premeditation or that committed in the furtherance of any arson rape robbery or burglary—in the second degree murder of all other kinds; Murder will out murder cannot remain hidden.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see murder committed in your dreams, foretells much sorrow arising from the misdeeds of others. Affair will assume dulness. Violent deaths will come under your notice. If you commit murder, it signifies that you are engaging in some dishonorable adventure, which will leave a stigma upon your name. To dream that you are murdered, foretells that enemies are secretly working to overthrow you. See Killing and kindred words.
Editor: Winthrop
Examples
- Murder by a Madman, and the contents of the paper showed that Mr. Horace Harker had got his account into print after all. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The murder is out, I subjoined. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The advice I give you is, don't you trouble your head about the murder. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You may as well say that the parents be the cause of a murder by the child, for without the parents the child would never have been begot. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I give information that the man that done the Harmon Murder is Gaffer Hexam, the man that found the body. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- One of the sons of Murad I embarked on an intrigue with Andronicus, the son of the Greek Emperor, to murder their respective fathers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I have starved her and the boy too; and now I am weak and helpless, Jem, she'll murder me for it; I know she will. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Hercules, the only other son of Alexander, was murdered also. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Another was discovered in them and murdered in the episcopal chair. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He was murdered in his house last night. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The bodies of the murdered were then brought out and exposed in the street, till a hole could be made in the earth to receive and cover them. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It lighted up the room where the murdered woman lay. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- On December 29th, 1916, the monk Rasputin was murdered at a dinner-party in Petrograd, and a belated attempt was made to put the Tsardom in order. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You say I murdered Peter Carey, I say I KILLED Peter Carey, and there's all the difference. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I should think you'll read the marriages, probably, miss, and the murders, and the accidents, and sich like? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Give me a rope, or I shall do three more murders and kill myself. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Murders, revolts, chastisements, disasters, cunning alliances, and base betrayals, and no Herodotus to record them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Neither murders nor visions interest him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I know it may be very dear--but it murders our marriage--and then the marriage stays with us like a murder--and everything else is gone. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Sir Leicester's cousins, in the remotest degree, are so many murders in the respect that they will out. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- That of murdering their coachman, William Kirwan. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I expressed my opinion upon this, that they were a set of murdering thieves. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Sometimes I thought that the fiend followed me, and might expedite my remissness by murdering my companion. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I knew a man who was hung in Jamaica for murdering his master. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- They were looting, murdering, and fighting amongst themselves. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Think that the reality is in her suffering, in her useless remorse, in her murdering within her breast the only love and truth of which it is capable! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You have not made it clear what was Colonel Moran's motive in murdering the Honourable Ronald Adair? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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