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MURDERED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Killed unlawfully
Example:
lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier
Classified under:
Similar:
dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb murder
Context examples:
They foundered at sea, and were never heard of more, and I say that the crews of them were murdered men.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He tells me that the day we were rescued, even while I was in the cabin, two men were drowned, deliberately drowned—murdered.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“Suppose it were as you suppose, supposing Dr. Jekyll to have been—well, murdered what could induce the murderer to stay? That won’t hold water; it doesn’t commend itself to reason.”
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Your comrades have been murdered.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That will do him good, and he'll come home in such a tender, penitent state of mind, that I shan't dare to see him, she said, adding, as she went slowly home, feeling as if she had murdered some innocent thing, and buried it under the leaves.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The breeze had not seemed to waft the sighs of the murdered to her; it had wafted nothing worse than a thick mizzling rain; and having given a good shake to her habit, she was ready to be shown into the common drawing-room, and capable of considering where she was.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
One of them now noticed a gold ring still remaining on the little finger of the murdered girl, and as he could not draw it off easily, he took a hatchet and cut off the finger; but the finger sprang into the air, and fell behind the cask into the lap of the girl who was hiding there.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The maid’s name was Lucretia Venucci, and there is no doubt in my mind that this Pietro who was murdered two nights ago was the brother.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We had reason to believe that his wife had been murdered, and that a man—presumably a seafaring man—had been murdered at the same time.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And you think you have evidence that he murdered his late master?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
