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"text": "Every time I heard the bell strike, that denotes the time on board a ship, I full of terror counted the hours until four o'clock; feeling sure that when that hour came, my enemies would begin their murderous attack.",
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"ref": "1909, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 18, in Ridgway of Montana",
"text": "While Harley had been in no way responsible for Pelton's murderous attack upon Yesler, public opinion held him to account.",
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"ref": "2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, page 9]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-08-25",
"text": "[O]ne minute this \"Jihadi John\" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.",
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"text": "murderous behaviour",
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"text": "She gave me a murderous look.",
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"ref": "1659, Richard Baxter, “Reproving Our Unwillingness to Die”, in The Saints Everlasting Rest: Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Glory. […], 8th edition, London: […] Thomas Underhill and Francis Tyton, […], →OCLC, part IV, section V, page 603",
"text": "Is any man loth to leave his priſon? or to remove his dwelling from cruel enemies? or to ſcape the hands of murderous robbers? Do we take the world indeed for our priſon? our cruel, ſpoyling, murderous foe? and yet we are loth to leave it?",
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"ref": "1662, John Reynolds, “History XI”, in The Triumphs of Gods Revenge against the Crying and Execrable Sin of Murther. […] Book III, London: […] A. M. for William Lee, […], →OCLC, page 152",
"text": "De Salez her Husband ſtriving and ſtrugling for life againſt the pangs of death; fear and haſt (contrary to her intent and mind) had ſo made his murtherous wifes hand ſhake and tremble, as ſhe did not ſo fully cut his throat-bole, but he could yet both cry and groan, which he did very mournfully, and which indeed was ſoon over-heard by a man and a maid-ſervant of his, […]",
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"ref": "1711, Obedience to Civil Government Clearly Stated: […], London: […] George Strahan, […], →OCLC, page 34",
"text": "Adam alſo was the High Prieſt, and received Authority from God, to teach the ſucceeding Generations of Men how to worſhip God, and what Sacrifices were to be offered by Cain and Abel, and all Poſterity. By which Sacrifices were brought into all Nations, to apply the Blood of the Lamb, ſlain from the foundation of the World, in the unalterable Purpoſes of God, to the Conſciences of all Men for the Remiſſion of their Sins, and to Excommunicate murderous Cain from the preſence of the Lord, […]",
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"word": "մարդասպան"
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "murhaava"
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "murhanhimoinen"
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "meurtrier"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "sasiḳvdilo",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "სასიკვდილო"
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "mörderisch"
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"roman": "dolofonikós",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "letale"
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "micidiale"
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "mortale"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "omicida"
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "internecīvus"
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "കൊലപാതക"
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "dedly"
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"word": "morderisk"
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
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"_dis1": "8 54 35 3",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "homicida"
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "assassino"
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "asasin"
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"_dis1": "8 54 35 3",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "ucigaș"
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"_dis1": "8 54 35 3",
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "ucigător"
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "крова́вый"
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"roman": "hiṃsra",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "हिंस्र"
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"_dis1": "8 54 35 3",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
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"word": "у̏битачан"
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
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"word": "у̀бојит"
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "asesino"
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "homicida"
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "mordisk"
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"_dis1": "8 54 35 3",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "מערדעריש"
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"text": "The rapid ſquadrons ſwift as thought engage, / And ſeek the hoſtile troops who ſhun their rage, / 'Midſt the thick clouds which ſmoak and duſt afford / With dreadful luſtre gleams the murderous ſword; […]",
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"ref": "1878 October, “A Tussle with Yellow Jack”, in G[eorge] Bampfield, editor, S. Andrew’s Magazine, volume I, number 10, London: Burns & Oates, […], →OCLC, page 1",
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"text": "[O]ne minute this \"Jihadi John\" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.",
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"ref": "1659, Richard Baxter, “Reproving Our Unwillingness to Die”, in The Saints Everlasting Rest: Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Glory. […], 8th edition, London: […] Thomas Underhill and Francis Tyton, […], →OCLC, part IV, section V, page 603",
"text": "Is any man loth to leave his priſon? or to remove his dwelling from cruel enemies? or to ſcape the hands of murderous robbers? Do we take the world indeed for our priſon? our cruel, ſpoyling, murderous foe? and yet we are loth to leave it?",
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"ref": "1662, John Reynolds, “History XI”, in The Triumphs of Gods Revenge against the Crying and Execrable Sin of Murther. […] Book III, London: […] A. M. for William Lee, […], →OCLC, page 152",
"text": "De Salez her Husband ſtriving and ſtrugling for life againſt the pangs of death; fear and haſt (contrary to her intent and mind) had ſo made his murtherous wifes hand ſhake and tremble, as ſhe did not ſo fully cut his throat-bole, but he could yet both cry and groan, which he did very mournfully, and which indeed was ſoon over-heard by a man and a maid-ſervant of his, […]",
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"ref": "1711, Obedience to Civil Government Clearly Stated: […], London: […] George Strahan, […], →OCLC, page 34",
"text": "Adam alſo was the High Prieſt, and received Authority from God, to teach the ſucceeding Generations of Men how to worſhip God, and what Sacrifices were to be offered by Cain and Abel, and all Poſterity. By which Sacrifices were brought into all Nations, to apply the Blood of the Lamb, ſlain from the foundation of the World, in the unalterable Purpoſes of God, to the Conſciences of all Men for the Remiſſion of their Sins, and to Excommunicate murderous Cain from the preſence of the Lord, […]",
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"text": "The rapid ſquadrons ſwift as thought engage, / And ſeek the hoſtile troops who ſhun their rage, / 'Midſt the thick clouds which ſmoak and duſt afford / With dreadful luſtre gleams the murderous ſword; […]",
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"word": "մարդասպան"
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "murhaava"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "murhanhimoinen"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "meurtrier"
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{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "sasiḳvdilo",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "სასიკვდილო"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"tags": [
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
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"word": "φονικός"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "letale"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "mortale"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "omicida"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "omicidiario"
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "satsubatsu to shita",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "殺伐とした"
},
{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "internecīvus"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "slepkavīgs"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "kolapātaka",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "കൊലപാതക"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "dedly"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "morderisk"
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{
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "homicida"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "assassino"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "asasin"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "ucigaș"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "ucigător"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "крова́вый"
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{
"code": "sa",
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"roman": "hiṃsra",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "हिंस्र"
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
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{
"code": "sh",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
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{
"code": "sh",
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{
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "asesino"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "homicida"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "mordisk"
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{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "merderish",
"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "מערדעריש"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
"word": "רציחהדיק"
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{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
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"sense": "likely to commit murder — see also homicidal",
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"code": "syc",
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"sense": "used to commit murder; capable of causing death — see also deadly, fatal",
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{
"code": "ca",
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"sense": "used to commit murder; capable of causing death — see also deadly, fatal",
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "used to commit murder; capable of causing death — see also deadly, fatal",
"word": "meurtrier"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "sasiḳvdilo",
"sense": "used to commit murder; capable of causing death — see also deadly, fatal",
"word": "სასიკვდილო"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "used to commit murder; capable of causing death — see also deadly, fatal",
"word": "gyilkos"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "used to commit murder; capable of causing death — see also deadly, fatal",
"word": "micidiale"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "used to commit murder; capable of causing death — see also deadly, fatal",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "у̏битачан"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "used to commit murder; capable of causing death — see also deadly, fatal",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "ȕbitačan"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "used to commit murder; capable of causing death — see also deadly, fatal",
"word": "dödlig"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "merderlekh",
"sense": "used to commit murder; capable of causing death — see also deadly, fatal",
"word": "מערדערלעך"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "mnogo truden",
"sense": "very difficult",
"word": "много труден"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "very difficult",
"word": "mörderisch"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "fonikós",
"sense": "very difficult",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "φονικός"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "very difficult",
"word": "morderisk"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "very difficult",
"word": "mordarisk"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "very difficult",
"word": "mördande"
}
],
"word": "murderous"
}
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