Murder Definition
- take-flight
- escape punishment
- bump off
- the Holocaust
- fratricide
- infanticide
- matricide
- patricide
- mayhem
- butchery
- avoid punishment
- avoid prosecution
- dowser
- one-way-ticket
- the business
- To escape punishment for or detection of an egregiously blameworthy act.
- Secrets or misdeeds will eventually be disclosed.
- to escape detection of or punishment for a blameworthy act
- a murder or murderer will always be revealed
- any secret or wrongdoing will be revealed sooner or later
- to yell or otherwise raise a loud disturbance, as from outrage or fear
Other Word Forms of Murder
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Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Murder
- get away with murder
- murder will out
- get away with murder
- murder will out
- scream bloody murder
Origin of Murder
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From Middle English murder, murdre, mourdre "murder", alteration of earlier murthre (“murder") (see murther) from Old English morþor (“secret slaying, unlawful killing") and Old English myrþra (“murder, homicide"), both from Proto-Germanic *murþrÄ… (“death, killing, murder"), from Proto-Indo-European *mrtro- (“killing"), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *mor-, *mr- (“to die"). Akin to Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌸𐍂 (maurþr, “murder"), Old High German mord (“murder"), Old Norse morð (“murder"), Old English myrþrian (“to murder") and morþ.
From Wiktionary
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The -d- in the Middle English form may have been influenced in part by Anglo-Norman murdre, from Medieval Latin murdrum from Old French murdre, from Frankish *murþra "murder", from the same Germanic root, though this may also have wholly been the result of internal development (compare burden, from burthen).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English murther from Old English morthor mer- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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