The Collaborative International Dictionary
Murder \Mur"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Murdered (m[^u]r"d[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Murdering.] [OE. mortheren, murtheren, AS. myr[eth]rian; akin to OHG. murdiren, Goth. ma['u]r[thorn]rjan. See Murder, n.]
To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.
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To destroy; to put an end to.
[Canst thou] murder thy breath in middle of a word?
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To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.
Syn: To kill; assassinate; slay. See Kill.
Wiktionary
n. The act of committing murder. vb. (present participle of murder English)
Usage examples of "murdering".
On the mutilation of Leno LaBianca: After murdering Rosemary, Katie remembered seeing Leno lying on the floor in the living room.
And no one can convince me, ladies and gentlemen, that all of us are capable of murdering strangers for no reason whatsoever like these three female defendants did.
Warren also confessed to murdering the elderly woman when he was an adolescent, a crime he had previously denied.
And he was tortured to death by three murdering bastards on a ditch bank.
He was eight years old, and guilty is guilty, and I hope the little sucker, when he hits Cummins, they get his ass right off the bat, because he deserves to be tortured and punished for the rest of his life for murdering three eight-year-old children!
Holymead murdering a lifelong friend, had to admit that the police had collected some damaging evidence.
In San Diego in 1993, Larry Ankrom and I testified in the trial of Cleophus Prince, accused of murdering six young women over a nine,-month period.
Richard Allen Davis, the man convicted of kidnapping and murdering twelve-year-old Polly Klaas in Petaluma, California, in October 1993, claimed his bad childhood made him what he is.
As difficult as it was to relive their experiences, once they learned the same man could still be out there, now murdering victims, they felt compelled to cooperate.
Sam Sheppard, the Cleveland osteopath accused of murdering his wife in 1954, who was found guilty and later not guilty of the crime, and who died before the controversy had quieted.
He would also have been able to bring his victims to a secure location rather than risking murdering them on the streets.
Correira confronted Bertha instead, murdering her in an overkill frenzy.
Sam Sheppard, an osteopath, was accused, tried, and convicted of murdering his wife, Marilyn, on the Fourth of July.
We have just stopped short of the one last sin of murdering ourselves.
She was placed on trial again in 1950-51 in Augsburg, Bavaria, charged with murdering 45 prisoners and being the willing accomplice in another 135 concentration camp homicides.