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murdered

  • past participle
    of murder.
    murder
    noun
    the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson first-degree murder, ormurder one, and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation second-degree murder, ormurder two.
  • past tense form
    of murder.
    murder
    noun
    the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson first-degree murder, ormurder one, and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation second-degree murder, ormurder two.

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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday that local and national authorities would go after those who had murdered him - and those who had ordered it.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

There are posh parties, through which some of the young characters pass, though no one is doing cocaine or getting murdered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

“IBM trading like Claude murdered Watson,” Ken Wattana, founder of an AI agentic company called Conto, joked on X Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

He was murdered by two Japanese defectors, a diocesan investigation concluded in 2017.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

As there was no proof that the Riddles had been murdered at all, the police were forced to let Frank go.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling