murdering
noun B1- The act of committing murder.
Plural murderings
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“Well, I’d hardly finished the first verse,” said the Hatter, “when the Queen jumped up and bawled out, ‘He’s murdering the time!
When he thought of that rapt light being quenched in her eyes he had an uncomfortable feeling that he was going to assist at murdering something--much the same feeling that came over him when he had to kill a lamb or calf or any other innocent little creature.
“That of murdering their coachman, William Kirwan!”
“You have not made it clear what was Colonel Moran’s motive in murdering the Honourable Ronald Adair?”
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