• vt. 謀殺，兇殺
• n. 謀殺，兇殺
• vi. 殺人，犯殺人罪

來自古英語morthor,秘密殺害，非法謀殺，來自Proto-Germanic*murthra,殺害，來自PIE*mer, 將死，死去，詞源同morbid,mortal.-ther,工具格后綴。

murder

murder: [OE] The ultimate source of murder is the Indo-European base *mor-, *mr- ‘die’ (source also of English mortal). Its extension *mrt- produced a prehistoric Germanic *mortam (source of German, Swedish, and Danish mord and Dutch moord ‘murder’) and *murthram, from which comes English murder.
=> mortal

murder (n.)

c. 1300, murdre, from Old English moreor (plural mortras) "secret killing of a person, unlawful killing," also "mortal sin, crime; punishment, torment, misery," from Proto-Germanic *murthra- (cognates: Goth maurtr, and, from a variant form of the same root, Old Saxon morth, Old Frisian morth, Old Norse more, Middle Dutch moort, Dutch moord, German Mord "murder"), from PIE *mrtro-, from root *mer- "to die" (see mortal (adj.)). The spelling with -d- probably reflects influence of Anglo-French murdre, from Old French mordre, from Medieval Latin murdrum, from the Germanic root.

Viking custom, typical of Germanic, distinguished more (Old Norse) "secret slaughter," from vig (Old Norse) "slaying." The former involved concealment, or slaying a man by night or when asleep, and was a heinous crime. The latter was not a disgrace, if the killer acknowledged his deed, but he was subject to vengeance or demand for compensation.

Mordre wol out that se we day by day. [Chaucer, "Nun's Priest's Tale," c. 1386]

Weakened sense of "very unpleasant situation" is from 1878.

murder (v.)

Old English myrerian, from Proto-Germanic *murthjan (cognates: Old High German murdran, German m?rdren, Gothic maurtjan; see murder (n.)). Related: Murdered; murdering.

1. At the entry for " kill " , my thesaurus lists " murder " , " assassinate " and " waste " .

我的同義詞詞典在kill條目中列出murder, assassinate, waste 詞條.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. 13 men have been questioned in connection with the murder.

有13名男子因謀殺案受到盤問。

來自柯林斯例句

3. She denied the murder of four children who were in her care.

她否認殺害了她所照管的4個孩子。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Mr Farmer and Mrs Jones both admitted conspiring to murder her husband.

法默先生和瓊斯太太都承認密謀殺死了瓊斯先生。

來自柯林斯例句

5. I know of no one who would want to murder Albert.

我沒聽說有人想殺艾伯特。

來自柯林斯例句