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countermurder

noun

Etymology

From counter- + murder.

  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. formed as countermurder — “counter- + murder”

Definitions

  1. A murder in response to another murder.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for countermurder. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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