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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

He often feels as though he were murdering some helpless thing he had loved, and conceals his tears and his heartache for fear of being laughed at.

From The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young by Morley, Margaret Warner

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

From The Dog by Youatt, William

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 Porterfield, Allen Wilson

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 Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)