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Definition: Murderously |
MurderouslyAdverb1. As if bent on murder; "the huge dog bore down on them with bared fangs and barking murderously". 2. In a murderous frenzy; "rioters running amuck and throwing sticks and bottles and stones". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "murderously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Synonyms: MurderouslySynonyms: amok (adv), amuck (adv). (additional references) |
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| "Murderously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Murderously" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "murderously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mörderische (gruelingly, homicidally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urderouslymay ucigãtor (baneful, cut throat, dreadful, homicidal, killing, murderous, pestilent, terrible). (various references) อย่างอันตรายมาก. (various references) öldürecek gibi. (various references) смертоносно, кровопролитно, з наміром убити. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-m-o-r-r-s-u-u-y" | |
-2 letters: murderous. | |
-3 letters: delusory, moulders, rumoured, smoulder. | |
-4 letters: dormers, elusory, emulous, modules, modulus, molders, moulder, murders, murreys, orderly, ordures, remolds, rumored, rumours, slurred, smolder, yodlers. | |
-5 letters: demurs, dormer, dorsel, dorser, dorsum, dourer, dourly, douser, drumly, dryers, durums, lemurs, louder, loured, loused, lurers, melody, models, module, molder, morels, morsel, moulds, mouldy, moused, mouser, mousey, muleys, murder. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 75 72 64 65 72 6F 75 73 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- ..- .-. -.. . .-. --- ..- ... .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01110101 01110010 01100100 01100101 01110010 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M u r d e r o u s l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0075 0072 0064 0065 0072 006F 0075 0073 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4787847071848187857891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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