"half murder" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2009, Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, page 192:",
          "text": "That was the half murder. The next one was a liquor seller, Philips Daruwala, and that was the first proper murder.",
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        {
          "ref": "2017, Priya Gaikwad, Prison Diaries: How Dare She be a Woman and Have Dreams of Freedom:",
          "text": "Before he could get out Rita was already arrested for half-murder of her step-father.",
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        "The committing of a grievous, but not fatal, injury."
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          "injury",
          "injury"
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        "(India, idiomatic) The committing of a grievous, but not fatal, injury."
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Priya Gaikwad, Prison Diaries: How Dare She be a Woman and Have Dreams of Freedom:",
          "text": "Before he could get out Rita was already arrested for half-murder of her step-father.",
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