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