英和和英

名詞

half murder (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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.

別の表記

• half-murder