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Definition murder

Etymology

From Middle English murder, murdre, mourdre, alteration of earlier murthre (“murder”) (see murther), from Old English morþor (“secret slaying, unlawful killing”) and Old English myrþra (“murder, homicide”), both from Proto-Germanic *murþr? (“death, killing, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mrtro- (“killing”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *mor-, *mr- (“to die”). Akin to Gothic ?????? (maurþr, “murder”), Old High German mord (“murder”), Old Norse morð (“murder”), Old English myrþrian (“to murder”) and morþ.

The -d- in the Middle English form may have been influenced in part by Anglo-Norman murdre, from Medieval Latin murdrum from Old French murdre, from Frankish *murþra (“murder”), from the same Germanic root, though this may also have been wholly the result of internal development (compare burden, from burthen).

Noun

murder (countable and uncountable, plural murders)

1. (countable) An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.
2. (uncountable) The crime of deliberate killing of another human.
3. (uncountable, law, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.
4. (uncountable, used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.
5. (countable, collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.

Verb

murder (third-person singular simple present murders, present participle murdering, simple past and past participle murdered)

1. To deliberately kill (a person or persons).
2. (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To defeat decisively.
3. To botch or mangle.
4. (figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
5. (figuratively, colloquial, Britain) to devour, ravish.

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