MURDERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does murdered mean? 

• MURDERED (adjective)
  The adjective MURDERED has 1 sense:

1. killed unlawfully

  Familiarity information: MURDERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MURDERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Killed unlawfully

Context example:

lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier

Similar:

dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)

 Context examples 

He was murdered in his house last night.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If the two people were murdered, who but their murderer would have sent this sign of his work to Miss Cushing?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How they murdered him I do not know, save that it was Murillo’s hand who struck him down, for Lopez had remained to guard me.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How much more a murdered that could destroy radiant innocence!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was of a man, who had murdered one of that gentleman’s intimate acquaintance.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

At Weymouth and at Portland they have murdered and ravished.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“But somebody is always being murdered, and I didn't read it.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Still, I like Charles—I respect him—I pity him, poor murdered king!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In this case, however, they have established a very serious case against the son of the murdered man.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Murdered off the coast of Andres! an' you consated his body lay under!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)