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# murdered

«murdered» in Mova's school dictionary: **killed someone on purpose; it is a very serious crime** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb, past form of murder (murder, murders, murdered, murdering); adjective (the murdered man)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Murdered means killed someone on purpose; it is a very serious crime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murdered/#m1)

2) (informal) Murdered can mean did something very badly, as in «she murdered that song». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murdered/#m2)

3) (slang) «I could murder a cup of tea» means I want one very much; «murdered» in sport slang can mean beaten very badly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murdered/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, detective books and history lessons, a murdered person was killed by another on purpose; murder is the worst crime. In everyday talk «murdered» is often used as a joke about bad singing or a heavy defeat. In safety, real violence must be reported to the police. Phrases: was murdered, brutally murdered, murdered a song, got murdered (lost badly).

### examples

- In the story, the old king was murdered by his brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murdered/#x1)
- The detective found out who murdered the butler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murdered/#x2)
- The murdered man's dog led police to the house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murdered/#x3)
- Dad murdered that song at karaoke! (informal) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murdered/#x4)
- We got murdered 8–0 on Saturday. (slang) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murdered/#x5)
- Macbeth murdered King Duncan in Shakespeare's play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murdered/#x6)
- I could murder a sandwich. (informal) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murdered/#x7)
- Was not the knight Sir Bugge murdered by wicked people? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murdered/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: murder, murdered. «Murder» means killing on purpose; «manslaughter» is killing without meaning to. The person who murders is a «murderer». The joking uses never mean real killing. In maths sports scores, «murdered 8–0» means won or lost by 8.

### In the corpora

- ["Whacked" is American gangster slang for murdered.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/11/)
- ["Sleeping with the fishes" is American gangster slang for murdered and dumped in water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/12/)
- ["Sleep with the fishes" is US gangster slang for being murdered and dumped in water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/10/)
- [Antisemitism is hatred of Jewish people; it led to the Holocaust, in which about six million Jews were murdered.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/30-judaism/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «murdered» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murdered/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.