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noun

Murder n. The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide. "Mordre will out." "The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt of murder, as the offering them to idols had the guilt of idolatry." "Slaughter grows murder when it goes too far." Note: Murder in the second degree, in most jurisdictions, is a malicious homicide committed without a specific intention to take life.

verb

Murder v. t. (past & past part. murdered; pres. part. murdering)

To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.

To destroy; to put an end to. "(Canst thou) murder thy breath in middle of a word?"

To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.

Synonyms: To kill; assassinate; slay. See Kill.

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"Murder" Quotes from Famous Books

... of me, and the impossibility of my escape from his hands, set my head a-working upon all sorts of mischief, and in particular I resolved, after studying all other ways to deliver myself, and finding all ineffectual, I say, I resolved to murder him. With this hellish resolution in my head, I spent whole nights and days contriving how to put it in execution, the devil prompting me very warmly to the fact. I was indeed entirely at a loss for the means, for I had neither gun or sword, nor any weapon to assault him with; poison I had my ...

— The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton • Daniel Defoe

... so," she replied calmly, taking his belief as an equal. "To let joy into the world somewhere before death." Her wistful tone rang out into the room. "But that would be murder," she continued. "We should have to call it murder, shouldn't we? And that is a fearful word. I could never quite forget it. I should always ask myself if I were right, if I had the right to judge. I am a coward. The work is too much ...

— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick

... thee, that thou bearest housed in the valley of thine armpits a grim goat. Hence everyone's fear. Nor be marvel: for 'tis an exceeding ill beast, with whom no fair girl will sleep. Wherefore, either murder that cruel plague of their noses, or cease to marvel ...

— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus

... could so completely alter one's views and notions of life. I cannot look at anything with the same eyes. It is all very well for people to talk philosophy, but it is difficult to be philosophical when one's every sense is being continually froisse. I feel sometimes that I could commit murder, and I do not know when I shall be able to take the Marquis's advice to remain placid and shut my eyes and try to get what good out of ...

— The Reflections of Ambrosine - A Novel • Elinor Glyn

... of barbarity and brutality. Now, do you for one moment believe that these words were written by the most merciful God? Don't pluck from the heart the sweet flower of piety and crush it by superstition. Do not believe that God ever ordered the murder of innocent women and helpless babes. Do not let this superstition turn our heart into stone. When anything is said to have been written by the most merciful God, and the thing is not merciful, that I deny it, and say He never wrote it. I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking ...

— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest • Robert Green Ingersoll

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