MURDER

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Traducere în limba română

murder I. substantiv

1. ucidere, omor, asasinat, crimă;

(jur.) premeditated murder crimă premeditată;

to do / to commit (a) murder a face un omor, a comite un asasinat;

murder! săriţi! ajutor!

to cry murder a striga (după) ajutor;

(fam.) to cry blue / pink murder a striga după ajutor cât îl ţine gura;

(prov.) murder will out adevărul iese la lumină / la suprafaţă; adevărul pluteşte ca untdelemnul;

(fam.) the murder is out s-a descoperit misterul, adevărul a ieşit la lumină.

2. (înv.) măcel, masacru, exterminare.

3. (fig.) stropşire, stâlcire, stricare (a cuvintelor, a limbii).

◊ (fam.) like blue murder grozav de repede.

murder II. verb tranzitiv

1. a ucide, a omorî, a asasina.

2. (fam.) (despre limbă, cuvinte, citate) a stropşi, a stâlci, a ciunti, a trunchia, a poci;

he murders English stâlceşte limba engleză.

3. (despre un cântec, un dans) a executa repede şi prost, a da rasol.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“Yes,” said I. “You have not made it clear what was Colonel Moran’s motive in murdering the Honourable Ronald Adair?”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You accuse me of murder, and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry ‘Cooee!’ before he knew that his son had returned.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Miss Burnet has not been seen by any human eye since the night of the murder.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“He meant to murder you. You had a fine escape.”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

That of murdering their coachman, William Kirwan!

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Theer! the murder's out!” said Mr. Peggotty—“You come in! It took place this here present hour; and here's the man that'll marry her, the minute she's out of her time.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“Government,” said Henry, endeavouring not to smile, “neither desires nor dares to interfere in such matters. There must be murder; and government cares not how much.”

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

“That must lead to the room of the murder.”

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In such case there would be no evidence against us, in case any suspicion of murder were aroused.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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