[
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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Some people believe that Richard III did not murder his nephews and was not the villain he is generally thought to have been.
- The first exhibit was a knife which the prosecution claimed was the murder weapon.
- And when the Monkeewrench crew - computer geeks who made a fortune on games, now assisting the cops with special anticrime soft-ware - are invited by the FBI to investigate a series of murder videos posted to the Web, it's not long before the group discovers the frightening link between the unlucky bride and the latest, most horrific use of the Internet yet. Shoot to Thrill by P. J. Tracy: Book summary
- The threat to foreign contractors has escalated in the past month following a series of kidnappings and murders.
- For the life of me, I cannot fathom your continued application of the irrebuttable presumption that any individual held and interrogated by the admin is necessarily a murderer or an aider of a murderer. Balkinization
- It is murder trying to find a parking place for the car.