(n.) The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.
(n.) To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.
(n.) To destroy; to put an end to.
(n.) To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the trial Arena admitted involvement in criminal activity, but insisted he was innocent of the murders.
(2) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
(3) Murder-suicide occurs with an annual incidence of 0.2 to 0.3 per 100,000 person-years and accounts for approximately 1000 to 1500 deaths yearly in the United States.
(4) The lies Trump told this week: from murder rates to climate change Read more “President Obama has commuted the sentences of record numbers of high-level drug traffickers.
(5) In a recent book about the life of Rudolf Höss who was the commandant at Auschwitz, he is quoted as saying of himself that he was not a murderer, he was “just in charge of an extermination camp”.
(6) Arizona on Wednesday executed the oldest person on its death row, nearly 35 years after he was charged with murdering a Bisbee man during a robbery.
(7) Holmes, 25, is charged with more than 166 separate offences relating to the mass shooting of 20 July in Aurora, including first degree murder.
(8) Black physicians should assume a lead role in these inquiries and in the prevention and treatment of violence, specifically black-on-black murder.
(9) The Morgan family said the terms of reference for the inquiry panel included: • Police involvement in the murder • The role played by police corruption in protecting those responsible for the murder from being brought to justice and the failure to confront that corruption • The incidence of connections between private investigators, police officers and journalists at the News of the World and other parts of the media and corruption involved in the linkages between them.
(10) The police investigating the 1991 murder of the Oxford student Rachel McLean had a strong hunch that the killer was her boyfriend, John Tanner, another student.
(11) The neo-Nazi murder trial revealing Germany's darkest secrets – podcast Read more From the very start, the investigation was riddled with basic errors and faulty assumptions.
(12) He added: "Those responsible for the murders of Fiona, Nicola, Mark and David Short are established criminals who are a scourge on our society.
(13) But should a traffic officer go to jail for neglecting a dangerous road, or a doctor who misses a critical symptom, or a judge who lets a murderer go free?
(14) The home secretary, Theresa May, will attend a summit in Washington on tackling violent extremism, called by Barack Obama after the Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris.
(15) The killing took place shortly after three Jewish youths, who had been kidnapped in the West Bank, were found murdered near Hebron.
(16) Drawings by women alcoholics of the self, a murderer, the murderer's victim and victim's parent revealed conscious and unconscious identification with the depicted roles.
(17) In the film Miller puts allegations of torture and murder to representatives of the Syrian government.
(18) The family of Naftali Frenkel, one of the the murdered Israeli teenagers, has condemned the apparent revenge attack on a Palestinian teenager.
(19) Among the thousands of candidates – whose nominations will be have to be put forward to the election commission in coming weeks – are expected to be Bollywood film stars, cricket players, serving parliamentarians accused of rape and murder, as well dozens of larger-than-life regional leaders.
(20) According to spokesman Vladimir Markin, the murder was either a set-up by the opposition to use Nemtsov as a “sacrificial victim”, a personal issue, a settling of scores between radical groups fighting on either side of the Ukraine conflict, or an act of Islamic terrorism.
Ravish
Definition:
(v. t.) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
(v. t.) To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
(v. t.) To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape.
Example Sentences:
(1) The "institution", still in her teens, in ravishing close-ups, was now driving Montgomery Clift to murder his pregnant girlfriend in George Stevens's A Place in the Sun.
(2) Rameau reminded his readers that mathematics is as important in music as it is in astronomy, and saw no conflict between the charts and formulae that fill his treatise and his ravishing operas and instrumental music.
(3) To your left appears one of the most ravishing curves of golden sand you will ever see.
(4) As with all Hawthorne's fantastic stories, and especially those written for Mosses , like "The Bosom Serpent" or "The Birth-Mark" (in which a husband becomes so obsessed with his otherwise ravishing wife's single blemish that he resolves to remove it at whatever cost), there is more going on here than an exercise in the ornamental grotesque.
(5) The only objectionable thing is his determined use of the word "ravish", that split second of ambiguity.
(6) Then the food starts arriving: innovative and ravishing.
(7) South Africa held its first multiracial election 20 years ago on Sunday, defying bombs, bluster and the threat of civil war to conjure a spectacle of voters in long, winding lines that ravished the world.
(8) There's a danger of anachronism here - it feels like a very modern civil partnership – as there is too with the boys' habit of saving slave girls, spoils of war, from ravishment by their fellow soldiers by claiming them chastely for themselves, and promising earnestly never to kill unarmed men.
(9) As for the future of Diana, the second sister born in 1910, it's only necessary to take a look at the series of family group photographs that dot the various Mitford compendia: a ravishing blonde Elspeth at 12, metamorphosing into a steely Nordic heartbreaker of 19, the age at which she escaped the shackles of family life through marriage to the likeable but apparently uninspiring son of a Tory grandee.
(10) The show’s most memorable lines have come from her – whether it’s telling 16-year-old Lauren Platt, after she had sung How Will I Know, “I’m so excited right now I could slap you”, or suggesting she’d be up for mud wrestling with Fernandez-Versini (“That’s quite hot, I’d like to do that”), or telling Ben Haenow he made her want to go home and ravish her husband.
(11) Henri Fantin-Latour is forgotten compared with his friend Manet but his pink-tinged flower paintings are ravishing.
(12) His unsayable thing about women is that they [we] all want to be ravished.
(13) The hit single Starman brought instant success for the album, while Bowie’s ravishing stage costumes and sexually provocative performances (following his carefully timed claim in a Melody Maker interview that he was gay) triggered fan enthusiasm unseen since Beatlemania.
(14) The galleries have taken seven years to fill with more than 1,800 ravishing objects.
(15) They (we) have ravishment fantasies, because it means "if you enjoy it, it's not your fault".
(16) He knew the ravishing speed and the split-second timing of his punches were fractionally out of kilter.
(17) (1974); and, as Charles Underhill, he produced two 17th-century romps featuring Captain Fantom, a soldier of fortune described in John Aubrey's Brief Lives as a "great ravisher".
(18) I think, for me at least, it’s the humour – quietly visual, where a joke might be the way Duck ravishes a slice of bread – and the way its tone avoids the usual force-feed of bonhomie.
(19) They are led by the two US trade papers Variety and the Hollywood Reporter; while neither are acclaiming Magic in the Moonlight as a Blue Jasmine level late-masterpiece, Variety is considerably kinder , with its chief film critic Scott Foundas describing the film as "a high-spirited bauble that goes down easy thanks to fleet comic pacing, a surfeit of ravishing Cote d’Azur vistas and the genuinely reactive chemistry of stars Colin Firth and Emma Stone".
(20) That's so ravishing, to be that young and see subculture."