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for Murdered
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Murder \Mur"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Murdered
(m[^u]r"d[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Murdering.] [OE.
mortheren, murtheren, AS. myr[eth]rian; akin to OHG.
murdiren, Goth. ma['u]r[thorn]rjan. See Murder, n.]
1. To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being)
willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.
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2. To destroy; to put an end to.
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[Canst thou] murder thy breath in middle of a word?
--Shak.
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3. To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or
cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.
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Syn: To kill; assassinate; slay. See Kill.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
murdered \murdered\ adj.
killed unlawfully; as, the murdered woman.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
murdered
adj 1: killed unlawfully; "the murdered woman"; "lay a wreath on
murdered Lincoln's bier"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "murdered":
botched, bungled, butchered, fumbled, ill-advised, ill-considered,
ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-done, ill-executed, ill-managed,
impolitic, misconducted, misdirected, misguided, mismanaged,
muffed, negligent, spoiled
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