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were murdering

  • past progressive
    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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Fillmore launched his career in the 1820s with the Anti-Masonic Party, hawking a paranoid rumour that ruling Freemasons were murdering whistleblowers.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2018

With an expression on his face as though his own thoughts were murdering each other, Daniel looked into the corner from which Zephyr’s yellowish eyes were shining.

From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield

The flagon they were murdering; they poured Into the cup, wild-eyed, the grape's red blood.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Emma Lazarus

But when they tried to raise the injured man between them, he cried out to them to let him alone, they were murdering him.

From Fenton's Quest by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Many times in the course of the day he cried as if we were murdering him.

From The Dog by William Youatt