murdered

verb

past tense of murder
1
as in assassinated
to put to death deliberately those people made me so mad I felt like I wanted to murder them

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2
as in fumbled
to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way we listened in horror as she murdered our favorite song on stage

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Recent Examples of murdered During this same time his father had vanished behind the Bamboo Curtain and was almost certainly persecuted, possibly even murdered, by the same Communists that Hoover claimed to be fighting. — Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026 New or expecting mothers are more likely to be murdered than to die from obstetric causes. — Michele Decker, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2026 Among them is his paternal grandfather, Max Moritz, who fought for Germany in the First World War, only to be later murdered by Nazis at Dachau. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026 When her sister was kidnapped and murdered by her ex-husband in 2020, Banda retreated from religion. — Jesse Bedayn, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026 Peltola, during a candidate forum Friday, became emotional speaking about the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous people and said additional law enforcement resources are needed. — ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026 The flow of money from Qatar into Gaza has taken on new significance since October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists stormed southern Israel, murdered some 1,200 people, and took 251 more hostage. — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 18 Oct. 2026 The child was Leslie Ann Downey, one of five victims murdered by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between 1963 and 1965. — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2026 There were seven Black players total, so three left, and one is a Traitor, so she will not be murdered. — Alice Burton, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for murdered
  1. assassinated
  2. fumbled
  3. executed
  4. blew
  5. killed
  6. butchered
  7. ruined
  8. dubbed
Verb
  • Riehle made it to Broadway in 1986 with a role in the Emily Mann drama Execution of Justice, which centered on the trial of Dan White, who assassinated San Francisco mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978.
    — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Earlier that year, King had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of assassinated
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  • Thomas and Woods fumbled in the first half in Spartan territory — their first of the season on 118 combined carries thus far.
    — Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
  • During Sunday night’s game against the Seahawks at Lumen Field in Seattle, Mahomes fumbled after a big hit, and roughly 22 players had a chance to recover the ball.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of fumbled
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  • Smartly, Fischer and Wilson build out this community with its own strange customs, big and small, each executed without explanation, question or complaint.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The researchers worked with RISC-V assembly code, which represents instructions executed by a processor.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of executed
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  • The stocks are already down over 30% each in October as credit investors blew their yields out to distressed levels, doubting their business model of using aggressive levels of debt to build data centers.
    — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026
  • After losing consecutive non-road games by three points both times, on Saturday night UT blew a 24-3 halftime lead to turn it a fourth-quarter tie.
    — Mac Engel October 25, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of blew
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  • Two women, ages 50 and 60, were killed and dozens of other people were wounded in a Russian strike on a market in Lozova, in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, said Oleh Syniehubov, head of the regional military administration.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Samuels was killed just minutes after posting about Wright's abuse on social media.
    — WCCO Staff, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of killed
Verb
  • Thornburg butchered three of the people over seven days in September 2021 at the Mid City Inn in Euless.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Then, in 1863, a collection of Missouri Confederate Bushwhackers led by William Quantrill rode into Lawrence and butchered 150 men and boys.
    — Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of butchered
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  • My brother’s wife has ruined each and every get-together by having constant fights with her little boy about eating.
    — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Tyrese Maxey scored 28 points, Jaylen Brown had 19, Joel Embiid had 13 points and 11 rebounds, and the Sixers ruined the Knicks' championship party.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of ruined
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  • The 53,800-square-foot building, dubbed Le Large, is the passion project of Laurent Dumas, founder and president of the Emerige real estate group and its philanthropic arm, the Emerige Endowment Fund.
    — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Linvill and several other research groups attributed them to Russian operators the research community has dubbed Storm-1516.
    — Shannon Bond, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of dubbed

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