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murder
English
Alternative forms
- murther (obsolete)
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 *mr?tro- (“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).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m??d?(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m?.d?/
- Hyphenation: mur?der
- Rhymes: -??(?)d?(?)
Noun
murder (countable and uncountable, plural murders)
- (uncountable) The crime of deliberately killing another person without justification.
- (countable) The act of deliberate killing of another person or other being without justification, especially with malice aforethought.
- 1984, Humphrey Carpenter, Mari Prichard, The Oxford companion to children's literature, page 275:
- It may be guessed, indeed, that this was the original form of the story, the fairy being the addition of those who considered Jack's thefts from (and murder of) the giant to be scarcely justified without her.
- 1984, Humphrey Carpenter, Mari Prichard, The Oxford companion to children's literature, page 275:
- (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.
- (uncountable, used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.
- (countable, collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
Usage notes
- Adjectives often applied to “murder”: atrocious, attempted, brutal, cold-blooded, double, heinous, horrible, premeditated, triple, terrible, unsolved.
Synonyms
- (act of deliberate killing): homicide, manslaughter, assassination
- (group of crows): flock
Related terms
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
murder (third-person singular simple present murders, present participle murdering, simple past and past participle murdered)
- To deliberately kill (a person or persons) without justification, especially with malice aforethought.
- (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To defeat decisively.
- (figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
- To botch or mangle.
- (figuratively, colloquial, Britain) To devour, ravish.
Synonyms
- (deliberately kill): assassinate, kill, massacre, slaughter
- (defeat decisively): thrash, trounce, wipe the floor with
- (express one’s anger at): kill
Derived terms
- murder one's darlings
Translations
Anagrams
- murred, redrum
Cebuano
Etymology
From English murder, 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”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: mur?der
Verb
murder
- to murder; to deliberately kill
- (slang) to mispronounce or misspell a person's name
Noun
murder
- an act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human
- the crime of deliberate killing of another human
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felony
English
Alternative forms
- fellonie
Etymology
From Middle English felony, felonie, from Old French felonie (“evil, immoral deed”), from felon (“evildoer”). Ultimately of Proto-Germanic origin. More at felon.
Pronunciation
- enPR: f?'l?-n?, IPA(key): /?f?.l?.ni/
Noun
felony (plural felonies)
- (US, law) A serious criminal offense, which, under United States federal law, is punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year or by death.
Related terms
- felon
- felonious
- felonize
Translations
See also
- misdemeanor (less serious crime)
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