murder

CEFRA2

/ˈmɜːdə(ɹ)/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The crime of deliberately killing another person.

  2. 02

    verb

    To kill someone deliberately and illegally.

Examples

  • You've got no alibi for the day of the murder.

  • He was found guilty of murder.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The act of killing a person (or sometimes another being) unlawfully, especially with predetermination

  2. The crime of killing a person unlawfully, especially with predetermination.

  3. 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.

More examples

In context

  • You are guilty of murder.

  • There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone.

  • The defendant was charged with murder.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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 murdr...