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What is the verb for murder?

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murder
  1. To deliberately kill (a person or persons).
  2. (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial) To defeat decisively.
  3. To botch or mangle.
  4. (figuratively, colloquial, Britain) to devour, ravish.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Rubensfeldt was involved in a plot to murder his business partner in order to strike it rich at the expense of an insurance company.”
      “This team was clearly a class above the rest of the competition and would comprehensively murder each of their opponents.”
      “Bots rarely if ever try non-standard ports, as trying thousands of ports per host would murder their performance.”
murdering
murdereth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of murder
murderest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of murder
murderedst
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past form of murder
murdered
  1. simple past tense and past participle of murder
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “For the last two years its leader, who allegedly murdered an RUC officer, has claimed to act for the community.”
      “Most of our uncorrupt political leaders were murdered and for many Colombians the word politician is now a synonym for corruption and abuse.”
      “On the same day, December 17, a Waffen SS unit under the command of Joachim Pieper murdered 113 American prisoners.”
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