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murder

/ˈmɝ.dɚ/ nom A2

En français : meurtre, assassinat, homicide volontaire

  1. An act of killing a person unlawfully, especially with predetermination. (countable) · Throwing that punch was a murder whether you meant for it to happen or not.· There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone.
  2. The crime of killing a person unlawfully, especially with predetermination. (uncountable) · The defendant was charged with murder.
  3. The act of killing any being in an immoral manner; (countable) an instance of this. (uncountable) · Meat is murder.
  4. Something difficult or terrible to endure. (figuratively, uncountable) · I heard this class is murder.· This headache is murder.
  5. Something remarkable or impressive. (countable, dated, figuratively, slang, uncountable)
  6. A flock of crows or sometimes ravens. (countable) · A murder of crows dotted my backyard.· Every morning we woke up to the squawking of what seemed like a hundred murders in the trees above our campsite.

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It is, as I gather from your original remarks, an inexplicable, or at least an unexplained, murder.
The Valley of Fear, p. 18 · C1
It added that the case was undoubtedly one of murder, but that no arrest had been made, and that the case was one which presented some very perplexing and extraordinary features.
The Valley of Fear, p. 20 · C1
“There has been many a hammer murder and no trace on the hammer.”
The Valley of Fear, p. 35 · C1
The ring business and the card point to premeditated murder for some private reason.
The Valley of Fear, p. 37 · C1

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