"half murder" meaning in English

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        "plural"
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      "expansion": "half murder (countable and uncountable, plural half murders)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The committing of a grievous, but not fatal, injury."
      ],
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          "grievous",
          "grievous"
        ],
        [
          "fatal",
          "fatal"
        ],
        [
          "injury",
          "injury"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(India, idiomatic) The committing of a grievous, but not fatal, injury."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "half-murder"
        }
      ],
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  "word": "half murder"
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    {
      "form": "half murders",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Indian English"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The committing of a grievous, but not fatal, injury."
      ],
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        [
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          "committing"
        ],
        [
          "grievous",
          "grievous"
        ],
        [
          "fatal",
          "fatal"
        ],
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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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        "idiomatic",
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "half-murder"
    }
  ],
  "word": "half murder"
}