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noun

Murder n. The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide. "Mordre will out." "The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt of murder, as the offering them to idols had the guilt of idolatry." "Slaughter grows murder when it goes too far." Note: Murder in the second degree, in most jurisdictions, is a malicious homicide committed without a specific intention to take life.

verb

Murder v. t. (past & past part. murdered; pres. part. murdering)

To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.

To destroy; to put an end to. "(Canst thou) murder thy breath in middle of a word?"

To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.

Synonyms: To kill; assassinate; slay. See Kill.

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"Murder" Quotes from Famous Books

... husband? If so, what could that ghastly secret be? Were he and Guy the inheritors of some deadly crime? Had their origin been concealed from them, more in mercy than in cruelty, only lest some hideous taint of murder or of madness might mar their future and make their ...

— What's Bred In the Bone • Grant Allen

... vegetables, as well as fruit, but that they had got tired of the life, and had had a quarrel with four mongrel Spaniards, who lived on another part of the island, whom they thought might some day try to murder them. ...

— Peter Trawl - The Adventures of a Whaler • W. H. G. Kingston

... these it brings out what is in the man, and these murders and lesser brutalities of the soldiers while policing San Francisco tell us that the soldier is but an infuriated thug, ready to do murder and rapine at the first opportunity; the civic authorities of Oakland recognized this as a fact when they finally allowed the reopening of the saloons, for the barkeepers were specially interdicted from selling or giving liquor to soldiers; they were already loaded too heavy with ...

— Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 - Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature • Various

... immediately she rose up lovelier than ever. Then the King came, and besought her to return to the palace as his bride, but she replied, 'I will never be your wife till that wicked sorceress is dead, for she would only murder me and my boy, as she murdered your seven young sons. If you will dig a deep ditch at the threshold of the palace, fill it with scorpions and snakes, throw the wicked Queen into it, and bury her alive, I will walk over her grave to be ...

— Tales Of The Punjab • Flora Annie Steel

... Gibbs, who was executed in New York, said that when he robbed the first vessel his conscience made a hell in his bosom; but after he had sailed for years under the black flag, he could rob a vessel and murder all the crew, and lie down and sleep soundly. A man may so accustom himself to error as to become its most devoted slave, and be led to commit the most fearful crimes in order to defend it, or ...

— Architects of Fate - or, Steps to Success and Power • Orison Swett Marden

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