half murder

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Meaning: (India,idiomatic)Thecommittingof agrievous, but notfatal,injury.2009, Suketu Mehta,Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, page192:That was thehalf 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 forhalf-murderof her step-father.

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