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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-West Germanic *morþr, from Proto-Germanic *murþrą (“death, killing, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tro- (“killing”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *mor-, *mr̥- (“to die”). Akin to Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌸𐍂 (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 Old French murdre, from Medieval Latin murdrum (whence the English doublet of murdrum), from Frankish *morþr, *murþr (“murder”), from the same Germanic root, though this may also have been wholly the result of internal development (compare burden, from burthen).

(crows): Attested at least since 1475. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɜːdə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɝ.dɚ/
• Hyphenation: mur‧der
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

Noun

murder (countable and uncountable, plural murders)

1. (uncountable) The crime of killing a person unlawfully, especially with predetermination.
   1. (uncountable, law, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The act of committing or abetting a crime that results in the killing of a person, regardless of intent, and even if the committer or abettor is not the one who killed the person: felony murder.
2. (countable) The act of killing a person (or sometimes another being) unlawfully, especially with predetermination
3. (uncountable, used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.

4. (countable, collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
5. (dated slang) Something remarkable or impressive.
6. (nonstandard) a murderer

Synonyms

• (act of deliberate killing): homicide, manslaughter, assassination
• (group of crows): flock

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Verb

murder (third-person singular simple present murders, present participle murdering, simple past and past participle murdered)

1. To illegally kill (a person or persons) with intent, especially with predetermination
2. (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To defeat decisively.

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

4. To botch or mangle.
5. (figuratively, colloquial, British) 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

Further reading

• “murder n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

Anagrams

• murred, redrum

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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 *murþrą (“death, killing, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mrtro- (“killing”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *mor-, *mr- (“to die”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mur‧der

Verb

murder

1. to murder; to deliberately kill
2. (slang) to mispronounce or misspell a person's name

Noun

murder

1. an act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human
2. the crime of deliberate killing of another human