[
UK
/mˈɜːdɐ/
]
[ US /ˈmɝdɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈmɝdɝ/ ]
VERB
-
alter so as to make unrecognizable
The tourists murdered the French language -
kill intentionally and with premeditation
The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered
NOUN
- unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
How To Use murder In A Sentence
- Still, the doctor is not convinced, but he does offer his story of a murderous ventriloquist whose dummy seemed more alive, and violent, than he was.
- So, she ran round and round the scaffold with the executioner striking at her, and her grey hair bedabbled with blood; and even when they held her down upon the block she moved her head about to the last, resolved to be no party to her own barbarous murder. A Child's History of England
- The first exhibit was a knife which the prosecution claimed was the murder weapon.
- It is murder trying to find a parking place for the car.
- He admitted killing her but denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility and loss of control. Times, Sunday Times
- And the moral murder of my child is to be my punishment for daring to turn a deaf ear to the indign passion of a brute! The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
- You would commit the most foul of murders out of loyalty to me.
- Burke's execution was witnessed by the novelist Sir Walter Scott, who sympathized with the general opinion that both men's wives had served as accomplices, and that the anatomists had been accessories to the murders.
- Police may now reinvestigate her unsolved murder.
- Some people believe that Richard III did not murder his nephews and was not the villain he is generally thought to have been.