Word Finder - murder

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The crime of deliberately killing another person without justification.

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The defendant was charged with murder.

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The act of deliberate killing of another person or other being without justification, especially with malice aforethought.

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There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone.

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(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.

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(used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.

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This headache is murder.

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(collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.

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To deliberately kill (a person or persons) without justification, especially with malice aforethought.

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The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband.

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To defeat decisively.

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Our team is going to murder them.

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To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).

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He's torn my best shirt. When I see him, I'll murder him!

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To botch or mangle.

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To devour, ravish.

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I could murder a hamburger right now.

The murder happened days, maybe weeks ago.

His murder was someone else's headache.

Murder isn't the only form of violent crime that is falling.

Check into the murder of a woman named Brenda Washington in Omaha, Nebraska.

To be honest, I don't like the idea of a murder going unanswered.

After all, it is a murder in your jurisdiction.

This is still my county and if I'm the law, nobody is going to get away with murder on my watch.

He wasn't about to murder this Deidre to fetch the soul of past-Deidre.

Edith's death wasn't murder.

The murder of three men of the Baltic Landeswehr led to the coup of April 16 1919, by the proclamation of the Government of a Lettish clergyman, Needra.

Solving a current murder was difficult enough—a forty-year-old case was near impossible.

One of them might have even been responsible for Annie's murder.

Saying that might go further toward getting him to forget the kidnapping and murder and going on with his life.

They went through the motions of checking all the hotels and flophouses in the city, but no one had seen Homer in the days preceding his murder.

Might have his wife witnessed the attempted murder?

When he died in 1378, this son resolved to reunite the domains of the Visconti; and, with this object in view, he plotted and executed the murder of his uncle Bernab.

Alessandro de Medici was placed there with the title of duke of Civit di Penna; and, on his murder in 1537, Cosimo de Medici, of the younger branch of the ruling house, was made duke.

In July occurred the murder of the duke of Bisceglie, Lucrezia Borgia's third husband.

In England the Constitutions of Clarendon (by chap. viii.) prohibited appeals to the pope; but after the murder of St Thomas of Canterbury Henry II.

Clerks were punishable only in the court Christian, except in cases of grave crimes such as murder, mutilation (Fournier, p. 72), and cases called " royal cases " (vide infra).

The defence was that the murder was a political offence, and therefore not punishable as an ordinary case of assassination for personal motives.

The murder of Agamemnon was avenged by his son Orestes.

He came to the throne at the age of eight, after the murder of his predecessor Amon.

How is it that millions of men commit collective crimes--make war, commit murder, and so on?

Petitions continued to flow in to the emperor's cabinet, praying for a national representation, from the zemstvos, from the nobles and from the professional classes, and their moral was enforced by general agitation, by partial strikes, and by outrages which culminated at Moscow in the murder of the Grand-duke Sergius (February 4th, 1 9 05).

On the Congo, if a man commits a murder, the community votes whether he shall die or be expelled; if the latter, a victim is killed, of which all must partake; but this is not, as might be imagined, a case of Robertson Smith's piaculum for the re-establishment of the tribal bond; for the criminal is driven out of the community.

We stand on safer ground when we come to Elijah's bold intervention on behalf of righteousness when he declared in the name of Yahweh the divine judgment on Ahab and his house for the judicial murder of Naboth.

He tried Queen Joanna of Naples for the murder of her husband and acquitted her.

He broke with John after the murder of Orleans, though he tried to prevent civil war, and only finally joined the Armagnac party in 1410.

The climax of iniquity was the murder of Jehoiada's son Zechariah.

The plot resulted in the murder of Gedaliah and an unsuccessful attempt to carry off various princesses and officials who had been left in the governor's care.

Only the second is specifically said to be from Jerusalem (the remaining are of Judaeans), and the last has been plausibly connected with the murder of Gedaliah, an interval of five years being assumed.

In order to secure his position, he contrived the murder of Onias, who had taken sanctuary at Daphne.

Under cover of a storm, they opened the city-gates to their allies and proceeded to murder Ananus the high priest, and, against the verdict of a formal tribunal, Zacharias the son of Baruch in the midst of the Temple.

Their progress has not been arrested even by anti-Semitism, which first developed in 1883 at the time of the Tisza-Eslar accusation of ritual murder.

The legend of ritual murder (q.v.) has been revived, and every obstacle is placed in the way of the free intercourse of Jews with their Christian fellow-citizens.

Such incidents were the Damascus charge of ritual murder (1840), the forcible baptism of the Italian child Mortara (1858), and the Russian pogroms at various dates.

From 58 to 55 Auletes was in exile, driven out by popular hatred, and worked by bribery and murder in Rome to get himself restored to Roman power.

Philopator (51-47) and Cleopatra Philopator, Egyptian history coalesces with the general history of the Roman world, owing to the murder of Pompey off Pelusium in 48 and the Alexandrine War of Julius Caesar (48-47).

On at least one occasion the king's frenzy broke out in an attempt to murder David with his own hand.'

The eleven years which elapsed between the murder of Amnon and the revolt would seem to disprove any connexion between the two; the chronology may rest upon the tradition that Solomon was twelve years old when he came to the throne.

A little farther down the river is St Robert's cave, which is supposed to have been the residence of the hermit, and in 1744 was the scene of the murder of Daniel Clarke by Eugene Aram, whose story is told in Lytton's wellknown novel.

They have been described as "men who look the fiends they really are - of most sinister expression, with murder and every crime speaking from their savage eyes.

The exnawab of Kurnool was confined in it for forty years for the murder of his wife.

He was accused of complicity in a plot to murder Duke Henry, who in return ravaged the archiepiscopal lands in Saxony and Thuringia.

Seleucus himself had a hand in the murder of Perdiccas in 321.

But these undertakings were thwarted in March - April 1801 by the murder of the tsar Paul and by Nelson's victory at Copenhagen.

It purported to be an undertaking entered into by a few Jacobins, among them Arena, a Corsican, for the murder of Bonaparte at the opera.

The hatred felt for him by Germans found expression in a daring attempt to murder him made by a well-bred youth named Staps on the 12th of October.

His triumph over Austria in 1809, and especially the attempt of Staps to murder him, clinched his determination to found a dynasty in his own direct line.