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unmurder

unmurder verb: to bring (somebody murdered) back to life.

Verb

unmurder (third-person singular simple present unmurders, present participle unmurdering, simple past and past participle unmurdered)

  1. (rare, transitive) To bring (somebody murdered) back to life.
    • To illustrate with a crude parallel, the idea is the following: that one cannot unmurder the murdered and that one cannot unrape the raped.2013, Avram Hiller, Ramona Ilea, Leonard Kahn, Consequentialism and Environmental Ethics

Forms of unmurder

third-person singular presentunmurders
present participleunmurdering
past participleunmurdered
pastunmurdered

Origin of unmurder

From un- + murder.

Questions about unmurder

What does unmurder mean?
Unmurder means to bring (somebody murdered) back to life.
What part of speech is unmurder?
Unmurder is a verb.
What is the past tense of unmurder?
The past tense of unmurder is unmurdered.

Words near unmurder in the dictionary

  1. unmundane
  2. unmunged
  3. unmunicipalized
  4. unmunificent
  5. unmunitioned
  6. unmurder
  7. unmurderable
  8. unmurdered
  9. unmurdering
  10. unmurderous
  11. unmurders

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