to murder
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7.7
- verb
- /ˈmɜrdər/
- Informal
:
destrozar
- How do we, how do we not murder this moment?
Examples
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When he tried to fix the car himself, he murdered the engine, and it barely ran afterward.
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I murdered the tax code.
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Then the noise of the car engine had murdered her song.
Academic text (1995) -
Like it would murder the blue collar.
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I kind of murdered her by eating cherry pie.
Fiction book (1994) -
Of hours misspent, and murdered time.
Academic text (2017) -
We quoted Wordsworth: "We murder to dissect."
Academic text (2005) -
His attempts to sing in the talent show completely murdered the song, leaving everyone in the audience in disbelief.
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She really murdered the recipe by adding too much salt and overcooking the main dish.
Synonyms
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5.7
To cause someone to feel severe physical or emotional pain, often on purpose
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7.4
Damage something by cutting or removing parts so it looks ruined
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7.2
To change or damage something so it is hard to recognize
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
How Badly
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2.0
- Informal
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7.7
19
7.2
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6.0
- Informal
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2.8
Surface Forms
Etymology
Murder comes from the old word morthor meaning 'killing'. A helpful way to remember the informal sense 'to do something very badly' is to think of 'destroy'. If you 'murder' a song you have 'killed' or ruined it with a bad performance.