What's the difference between murder and thrash?

Murder


Definition:

  • (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.

Thrash


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Alt. of Thresh
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Thresh

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
  • (2) After a fairly competitive first set, it turned into a rout almost on the scale of the triple-bagle thrashing the Scot gave the Luxembourg part-timer Laurent Bram when he returned to Davis Cup action in Glasgow four years ago.
  • (3) Experts say they are encouraged that after months of simmering discord Xi and Trump are preparing to thrash it out at the so-called winter White House .
  • (4) Yet this was actually City’s second 4-1 beating in their last six league games, following on from the game at Tottenham Hotspur on 26 September, and it finished with their heaviest home defeat since a 5-1 thrashing against Arsenal at Maine Road in February 2003.
  • (5) So new newspaper enemies turn against the BBC, thrashing around for someone to blame for the danger newspapers are in.
  • (6) Woodward maintained that it would be simple to thrash out a "straightforward commercial settlement".
  • (7) 1.49am BST Michael Aston writes: Gota feeling this is going to be a thrashing, a major and total beat down... After watching the Spurs humiliate the Heat and Oranje murder Spain...this has a horror show Full moon Friday the 13th nightmare for NY written all over it.....then again, triple OT would be fun too Triple OT?
  • (8) Had they bothered to inquire of a veteran from the ranks, they might have heard how exasperating it is to see the dainty long-range patriots of Labour thrashing it out with the staunch gutter jingoists of the Conservative party – and barely a non-commissioned vet among them.
  • (9) Courtney Love recently had some of the SuicideGirls on her MTV special, while 70 of them featured in the video for the latest offering from Dave Grohl's thrash metal side-project, Probot.
  • (10) During talks to thrash out his reform package on Wednesday, treasury minister Giulio Tremonti reportedly told Berlusconi that he was Italy's real problem.
  • (11) Previously it only had to move refugees towards Macedonia; now it has to address their cases directly, and potentially house them for days or weeks while logistics with Turkey are thrashed out.
  • (12) Some analysts interpreted the Kenyan atrocity as a sign of weakness, the thrashings of a dying animal.
  • (13) At the inaugural meeting of the Human Brain Project earlier this month, researchers from more than 80 European institutions converged on the Lausanne campus to thrash out who would contribute to what platform.
  • (14) Arsenal will be Everton’s opponents in Saturday night’s final after they thrashed a Singapore XI 4-0 .
  • (15) Details of the property tax and water rates have also been thrashed out with the IMF, which is in favour of restricting extra income taxes in favour of higher taxes on consumption and wealth Mass meetings in Dublin have drawn protesters from across the country and several prominent members of the Irish and European parliaments.
  • (16) They leave the Tories relieved, Labour saying it could have been worse, Ukip alive if going nowhere and the Liberal Democrats barely out of their concussion from last year’s election thrashing.
  • (17) I don’t think he got a fair trial, but that is something we will have to thrash out at appeal,” Robinson told the Guardian, after giving a seminar on the case to law students at Nottingham University on Thursday night.
  • (18) There’s a lot we can take from them.” For now, all they have to show for brushes with Spurs is a pair of sound thrashings, and eight goals shipped en route, and it has been Kane who has revelled in the fixture most of all.
  • (19) I had seen the intriguingly named Millbrook Proving Ground on Top Gear, when Jeremy Clarkson et al thrashed some trucks around its 45 miles of twisty track.
  • (20) BAE and EADS are working to a deadline of 10 October deadline to thrash out a deal.