murder
verb/ˈmɜːdə(r)/
/ˈmɜːrdər/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they murder | /ˈmɜːdə(r)/ /ˈmɜːrdər/ |
| he / she / it murders | /ˈmɜːdəz/ /ˈmɜːrdərz/ |
| past simple murdered | /ˈmɜːdəd/ /ˈmɜːrdərd/ |
| past participle murdered | /ˈmɜːdəd/ /ˈmɜːrdərd/ |
| -ing form murdering | /ˈmɜːdərɪŋ/ /ˈmɜːrdərɪŋ/ |
- murder somebody to kill somebody deliberately and illegally
- He denies murdering his wife's lover.
- The boy was brutally murdered.
- The murdered woman was well known in the area.
- She was convicted of attempting to murder her husband.
Extra ExamplesTopics Crime and punishmentb1- He was found murdered in the cemetery.
- Thirty people were murdered that day.
- She was arrested and charged with murdering the two children.
- They were murdered in cold blood.
- He uncovered a conspiracy to murder the royal family.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- brutally
- cruelly
- in cold blood
- …
- attempt to
- try to
- plan to
- …
- admit murdering somebody
- deny murdering somebody
- be accused of murdering somebody
- …
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- murder something to change something good into something bad because you do not do it very well synonym butcher
- Critics accused him of murdering the English language (= writing or speaking it very badly).
- murder somebody (informal) to defeat somebody completely, especially in a team sport synonym thrash
- England are getting murdered at the moment.
Word OriginOld English morthor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch moord and German Mord, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit mará ‘death’ and Latin mors; reinforced in Middle English by Old French murdre.
Idioms
See murder in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee murder in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic EnglishI could murder a…
- (informal, especially British English) used to say that you very much want to eat or drink something
- I could murder a beer.
somebody will/is going to murder you, me, etc.
- (informal) used to warn or predict that another person will be very angry with somebody/you
- She's going to murder me if I don't get this finished on time.
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