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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Murder \Mur"der\, verb (used with an object) [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}, noun]
1. To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See {Murder}, noun
2. To destroy; to put an end to.
[Canst thou] murder thy breath in middle of a word? --Shak.
3. To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.
Syn: To kill; assassinate; slay. See {Kill}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
murdered \murdered\ adjective killed unlawfully; as, the murdered woman. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
murdered
adjective: killed unlawfully; "the murdered woman"; "lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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