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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Murder  \Mur"der\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Murdered};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Murdering}.]  [OE.  mortheren  murtheren,  AS  myr?rian; 
  akin  to  OHG.  murdiren  Goth.  ma['u]r?rjan.  See  {Murder},  n.] 
  1.  To  kill  with  premediated  malice;  to  kill  (a  human  being) 
  willfully,  deliberately,  and  unlawfully.  See  {Murder},  n. 
 
  2.  To  destroy;  to  put  an  end  to 
 
  [Canst  thou]  murder  thy  breath  in  middle  of  a  word? 
  --Shak. 
 
  3.  To  mutilate,  spoil,  or  deform,  as  if  with  malice  or 
  cruelty;  to  mangle;  as  to  murder  the  king's  English. 
 
  Syn:  To  kill;  assassinate;  slay.  See  {Kill}.




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