to commit murder
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5.4
- phrasal verb
- /kəˈmɪt ˈmɜrdər/
- NSFW
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asesinar
- It is a serious crime to commit murder, and the law punishes offenders harshly.
- commit murder and robbery
He pleads guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit murder in the furtherance of a drug conspiracy.
- He pleads guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit murder in the furtherance of a drug conspiracy.
- With no monarch and no hell, what would prevent people from stealing, lying, cheating, even committing murder?
- You had to speak some ancient Greek and you can't have committed murder.
- Meanwhile, Donald Trump had to not commit murder on camera.
- You know, a drug cartel is going to continue to sell drugs to kill people, commit murder, mayhem and all those things.
Examples
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He was charged with committing murder after the investigation revealed incriminating evidence.
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And, no matter what excuses he tried to make, Eduard knew he had committed murder.
Fiction book (2000) -
For us, whoever has committed murder must die.
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I'm not the type of person to commit murder.
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I'm going to commit murder at midnight.
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The plot to commit murder based on envy and opportunity sounds all too real.
Academic text (2000) -
For all he knew, this man had committed murder within town lines and wanted to confess.
Fiction book (2002) -
Aren't you supposed to arrest people who commit murder?
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Money isn't the only reason people commit murder, Miss Braslow.
Fiction book (1993) -
Anyone who commits murder must be momentarily insane.
Synonyms
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3.0
To kill someone on purpose in an illegal way
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8.8
To kill someone as part of a plan, often by hired people
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7.5
To kill someone on purpose
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9.9
To kill someone on purpose, usually by a criminal group
Antonyms
How Intentional
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to unlawfully kill someone' is directly derivable from combining 'commit' (to carry out or perpetrate an offense) with 'murder' (an unlawful killing). This verb + crime-noun composition is a regular, compositional pattern (found across many languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Commit murder uses commit in the sense 'to carry out' and murder to mean killing someone, so commit murder literally means 'to carry out' the act of murder, that is, to kill someone 'against the law'.