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axe-murder

verb

Etymology

From axe + murder or Back-formation from axe-murderer.

  1. derived from *mer-✻
  2. derived from *mr̥tro-✻ — “killing”
  3. inherited from *murþrą✻ — “death, killing, murder”
  4. inherited from *morþr✻
  5. inherited from morþor — “secret slaying, unlawful killing”
  6. inherited from murder
  7. compounded as axe-murder — “axe + murder”

Definitions

  1. To murder (someone) with an axe.

    • So […] the macabre episode of the two Americans axe-murdered […] became another chapter in the bloody annals of the Korean conflict.
    • As it turned out, Mrs. Talbot was a perfectly nice woman, and the students she axe-murdered for her unholy rituals weren't close acquaintances anyway.

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