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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
murdered
adj
  1. killed unlawfully; "the murdered woman"; "lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Murder \Mur"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Murdered}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Murdering}.] [OE. mortheren, murtheren, AS. myr[?]rian;
      akin to OHG. murdiren, Goth. ma[a3]r[?]rjan. See {Murder},
      n.]
      1. To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being)
            willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See {Murder}, n.
  
      2. To destroy; to put an end to.
  
                     [Canst thou] murder thy breath in middle of a word?
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      3. To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or
            cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.
  
      Syn: To kill; assassinate; slay. See {Kill}.
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