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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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havoc
English
Alternative forms
- havock (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English havok, havyk, from Old French havok in the phrase crier havok (“cry havoc”) a signal to soldiers to seize plunder, from Old French crier (“cry out, shout”) + havot (“pillaging, looting”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hæv.?k/
Noun
havoc (usually uncountable, plural havocs)
- widespread devastation, destruction
- Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make / Among your works!
- mayhem
Usage notes
The noun havoc is most often used in the set phrase wreak havoc.
Derived terms
- play havoc, raise havoc, wreak havoc, cry havoc, break havoc
Translations
Verb
havoc (third-person singular simple present havocs, present participle havocking, simple past and past participle havocked)
- To pillage.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act I, Scene II:
- To tear and havoc more than she can eat.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act I, Scene II:
- To cause havoc.
Usage notes
As with other verbs ending in vowel + -c, the gerund-participle is sometimes spelled havocing, and the preterite and past participle is sometimes spelled havoced; for citations using these spellings, see their respective entries. However, the spellings havocking and havocked are far more common. Compare panic, picnic.
Translations
Interjection
havoc
- A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter.
- Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt / With modest warrant.
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