murder

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Opportunity suggests the murder, provides the weapon, and gives Ronald the next room to his intended victim in a wing of the inn occupied by nobody else Your theory as to how the murder was actually committed strikes me as possible enough--up to a certain point.

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  1. noun The unlawful killing of one human by another, especially with premeditated malice.
  2. noun Slang Something that is very uncomfortable, difficult, or hazardous: The rush hour traffic is murder.
  3. noun A flock of crows. See Synonyms at flock1.
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  • But even here his nature shows itself; Othello has to be misled by Desdemona's weeping, which he takes to be sorrow for Cassio's death, before he can pass to action, and as soon as the murder is accomplished, he regrets O, insupportable! —  The Man Shakespeare
  • She diagnosed the emotionally unstable defendant with a narcissistic personality disorder and found clear evidence that the murder was a crime of passion at the end of a long-smoldering conflict between the siblings. —  Gates of Vienna
  • But his murder is another reminder that the people we are up against are not interested in having us understand them, nor are they interested in living in peace. —  GINA COBB
  • This murder is the reason we should all carry a gun on our side. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • He also expressed doubt that the murder could be an act of revenge by the Chechen leadership. —  The St. Petersburg Times
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English murther, from Old English morthor; see mer- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also and more orig. murther (now nearly obsolete); from Middle English morder, mordre, morther, morthre, from Anglo-Saxon morthor, morthur, murder, torment, deadly injury, mortal sin, great wickedness (= Gothic (Moesogothic) maurthr, murder, later Middle Latin murdrum, Old French mortre, French meurtre, murder, homicide); with formative -or, from morth, death, murder, homicide, destruction, mortal sin (later Middle English murth, slaughter, destruction: see murth), = Old Saxon morth = OFries. morth, mord = Dutch moord = Middle Low German Low German mort = Old High German mord, Middle High German mort, German mord = Icelandic mordh = Swedish Danish mord, murder, = Latin mor (t-)s, death, = Lithuanian smertis, death, akin to Greek βροτός, mortal, Welsh marw = Bret, marvs; death, Latin mori. die (later mortuus, dead), Sanskrit √ mar, die: see wort, mort, mortal, etc., immortal, ambrosia, amrita, etc.
  2. Also and more orig. murther; from Middle English murdren, mordren, murtheren, morthren, from Anglo-Saxon myrthrian, in comp. for-mgrthrian, of-myrthrian; cf. OFries. morthia, mordia = Dutch moorden = Old High German murdjan, Middle High German mürden, mörden, morden, German er-morden = Icelandic myrdha = Swedish mörda = Danish myrde = Goth, maurthrjan, murder; from the simpler form of the noun (Old Saxon morth = OFries. morth, etc.): see murder, n.
 

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