Past tense of murder
regular verb
The past tense of murder is murdered. The past participle is also murdered.
Forms of murder
| Base form (V1) | murder /ˈmɜːdə(ɹ)/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | murdered /ˈmɝ.dɚd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | murdered /ˈmɝ.dɚd/ |
| Present participle | murdering |
| Third person singular | murders |
Murdered in a sentence
- John Kennedy had been murdered, and a troubled, puzzled, and outraged nation wanted to know the facts.1971, Lyndon Johnson, “"I feel like I have already been here a year"”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC...
- The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband.
- In films, many people are murdered by being submerged in swimming pools.From the entry submerge
- It was not a suicide! He was murdered in cold blood.From the entry in cold blood
- The police don't know him, and the information they have leads them to think he could possibly have murdered his wife.From the entry possibly
Meaning of murder
- noun An act of killing a person unlawfully, especially with predetermination.
- noun The crime of killing a person unlawfully, especially with predetermination.
- noun The act of killing any being in an immoral manner; (countable) an instance of this.
Questions about the past tense of murder
- What is the past tense of murder?
- The past tense of murder is murdered.
- What is the past participle of murder?
- The past participle of murder is murdered.
- Is murder a regular or irregular verb?
- Murder is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: murder (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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