half murder

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Noun

half murder (countable and uncountable, plural half murders)

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

Alternative forms
  • half-murder
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