Killing : murder-42.1












[9 : Somebody ----s somebody ]
[10 : Something ----s somebody ]
[8 : Somebody ----s something ]



NP (Killer) V () PP[for] (Beneficiary) NP (Victim)
NP (Cause) V () PP[in] (Place) NP (Time) PP[on] (Time) NP (Victim)
VPing (Cause) V () NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () 2nd (Cause) PP[in] (Containing_event) 2nd (Explanation) PP[after] (Time) PP[on] (Time)
NP (Victim) V () 2nd (Cause) PP[in] (Containing_event) PP[between] (Period_of_iterations)
NP (Victim) V () 2nd (Cause) PP[in] (Containing_event)
NP (Cause) V () AVP (Manner) INI (Victim)
NP (Cause) V () PP[in] (Period_of_iterations) PP[at] (Victim)
NP (Cause) V () PP[around] (Place) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Cause) Sub (Time)
NP (Cause) V () AVP (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () PP[by] (Cause)
NP (Killer) V () 2nd (Circumstances) PP[in] (Containing_event) AVP (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () Swhether (Circumstances) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PP[in] (Containing_event) 2nd (Manner) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () PP[in] (Containing_event) CNI (Killer) 2nd (Means)
NP (Killer) V () PP[while] (Containing_event) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PP[while] (Containing_event) PP[as] (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () AVP (Degree) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () Sub (Explanation) PP[with] (Instrument) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () PP[because of] (Explanation) CNI (Killer) NP (Period_of_iterations) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Victim) V () Sub (Explanation) CNI (Killer) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Killer) V () 2nd (Explanation) PP[after] (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PP[since] (Explanation) PP[in] (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PP[as] (Explanation) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PP[with] (Instrument) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () DNI (Instrument) CNI (Killer) PP[near] (Place)
NP (Killer) V () PP[with] (Instrument) PP[in] (Place) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PP[with] (Instrument) PP[before] (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () PP[by] (Instrument) AVP (Manner)
NP (Killer) V () PP[in] (Manner) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PPing[by] (Means) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) AVP (Manner) PP[over] (Period_of_iterations)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) AVP (Manner) PP[for] (Purpose)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) PP[since] (Period_of_iterations)
NP (Killer) V () PP[since] (Period_of_iterations) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PP[in] (Place) PP[around] (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) AVP (Place)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Killer) V () PP[in] (Place) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PP[for] (Purpose) CNI (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () VPto (Purpose) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) AVP (Time)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) PP[before] (Time)
NP (Killer) V () AVP (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () NP (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PP[after] (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () Sfin (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () PP[by] (Killer) NP (Time)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer)
NP (Victim) V ()
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) PP[by] (Means)
NP (Killer) V () PP[for] (Explanation) PP[in] (Place) PP[during] (Time) PP[in] (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () PP[for] (Explanation) PP[by] (Killer) PP[on] (Time)
N (Victim) V () Sub (Explanation) CNI (Killer)
NP (Killer) V () PP[in] (Place) PP[during] (Time) PP[in] (Time) NP (Victim)
N (Victim) V () CNI (Killer)
N (Killer) V () N (Victim)
PP[after] (Killer) V () NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () Sub (Explanation) PP[by] (Instrument) CNI (Killer)
NP (Victim) V () PPing[for] (Explanation) CNI (Killer) PP[in] (Place) AVP (Time)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) AVP (Manner) PP[on] (Place) PP[on] (Time)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) PP[at] (Place) AVP (Time)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) PP[at] (Place) PP[on] (Time)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Cause) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Killer) V () PPing[by] (Means) PP[after] (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () Sub (Purpose) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () AVP (Means) Sfin (Means) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PP[to] (Result) NP (Victim)
NP (Cause) V () AVP (Frequency) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () Sub (Explanation) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () AVP (Manner) PP[by] (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () PP[by] (Instrument) CNI (Killer) PP[on] (Place) PP[on] (Time)
NP (Killer) V () NP (Manner) NP (Victim)
PP[of] (Killer) NP (Killer) V () NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) PP[according to] (Manner)
NP (Killer) V () AVP (Manner) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () PP[by] (Killer) AVP (Means)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) AVP (Manner)
NP (Victim) V () PP[with] (Instrument) PP[by] (Killer)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) VPto (Purpose)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient) NP (Cause) V () NP (Victim)
NP (Cause) V () DNI (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () CNI (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () DNI (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () INI (Victim)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient) PP.instrument[with] (Instrument)
NP.instrument (Instrument) V () NP (Patient) NP (Instrument) V () CNI (Victim)
NP (Instrument) V () NP (Victim)


Examples from WordNet


Anwar Sadat was assassinated because many people did not like his peace politics with Israel
AIDS has killed thousands in Africa
She was killed in the collision of three cars
The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered
The farmer killed a pig for the holidays
The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda
the double agent was neutralized
The mafia liquidated the informer
This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank
They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter
The Mafioso who collaborated with the police was executed
Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe



Examples from VerbNet


Brutus murdered Julius Caesar.
The DDT killed the insects.
Caesar killed Brutus with a knife.



Examples from SemCor


It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at_all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.
I once heard a comedian say that if you are killed by a taxicab in New_York, it is listed as`` death due_to natural causes''.
`` He claims Mahzeer 's in a plot to kill the P.M.''.
Sent to Montpelier by Secretary_Herbert_Hoover, Red_Cross Aide_Reuben_Sleight had been killed, and his pilot, Lt._Franklin_Wolfe, badly injured.
He had no apparent comprehension of morality; he divided humanity into`` right guys'' and`` wrong guys'', and the wrong ones he was always willing to kill and trample under.
If you ever try anything without my orders I 'll kill you''.
`` You must have loved that girl very_much, but you could n't have meant it when you said that you wanted to kill her''.
No girl would go this far to fool a man so she could kill him.
If we have not thought and made a decision entirely in these terms, then we need to submit ourselves to the following`` simple test'':`` Have we decided how we are to kill the other members of our household in the event of our being less injured than they are''?
In_other_words, the promulgators of the murder plan made clear that physically exterminating the Jews was but an extension of the anti-Semitic measures already operating in every phase of German life, and that the new conspiracy counted_on the general anti-Semitism that had made those measures effective, as a readiness for murder.
`` Well, for ten years I 've been murdering women.
He showed us how he dealt with his enemies: he executed them before TV cameras.
In the last war Russia lost more_than ten million killed and its lands and factories were devastated.
This is the tale of one John_Enright, an American who has accidentally killed a man in the prize_ring and is now trying to forget about it in a quiet place where he may become a quiet man.
It is true, of_course, the uncertainties of life being what they are, that as now_and_then the Christian killed the lion, homecoming days have been ruined by a visiting team.
Any little dose of radiation might knock_off these critters''.
He wisecracked about the captain 's indoctrination of new men, took great delight in slaughtering cockroaches with ethyl chloride, and gave no thought for tomorrow.
Parker could weep- and he wept astonishingly often and on the slightest provocation- but the psychology of those tears was entirely compatible with a remorseless readiness to massacre his opponents.
Concerning the sentence the editor asked,`` What can Virginia do than to hang the men who have defied her laws, organized treason, and butchered her citizens''.
And_then Eichmann was quoted as saying, in English, that Hitler 's plan to exterminate the Jews was nonsense''.
to the argument was the fact that while she might have tasted the coffee if it had been still hot, she might even have drunk some of it, she would have taken enough to kill her, for she would have been warned by its taste.
Let Old_Knife come_up and kill you and your people, or would you steer him on someone else''?
Although wanted by the sheriff for killing an old_man named Asher_Jones, the warrant for his arrest had never been served.
I was just doing my job, just following orders, and for that he 's going to kill me.
Additive should not be fed 72 hours before animals are slaughtered.
Dirty Reactionary bastards comin down here in the night and bumpin_off ol Slater and those other poor bastards.
Men were slaughtered, tumbled into eternity like so many torn parcels flung down a portable chute.
This dirty coward just admitted killing Arbuckle.
But there 's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just do think there is, and that 's a sportin' way o' killin' a man''!
It would have killed you in the cabin.
For three straight years, Tom_Horn patrolled the southern Wyoming pastures, and how_many men he killed after Lewis and Powell( if he killed Lewis and Powell) will never be known.
What about your&&& that girl you were going_to kill''?
A Sterling_Township family of six surviving children, whose mother died yesterday as the aftermath to a fire that also killed one of the children, found today they had the help of hundreds of neighbors and school friends.
- of a rifle and killed?
A young_man was killed and two others injured at midnight Friday when the car they were riding slid into a utility pole on Lake_Avenue near Waddell_Street, NE, police said.
Now they were riding to kill him.
He also admitted killing Mrs._Hengesbach.
What killed them''?
What concerns him much more is the relationship of diet to the nation 's No. 1 killer: coronary_artery disease, which accounts_for more_than half of all heart fatalities and kills 500000 Americans a year- twice the toll from all varieties of cancer, five times the deaths from automobile accidents.
Mrs._Hengesbach was killed on Aug. 31, 1958.
`` The Bartlett girl was killed by Mr._Dronk 's son.
`` Suppose it was not us that killed these aliens.
The 15- year-old adopted son of a Washington attorney and his wife, who were murdered early today in their Chesapeake Bay-front home, has been sent to Spring_Grove_State_Hospital for detention.
His friends advised that it would be only a question of time until either the Mexicans killed him by ambuscade or he would be compelled to kill them in self-defense, perpetuating the troubles.
Why, he 's going to kill me, he thought wildly.
Before Payne loomed the Old_Clubhouse, Seward 's home, where Key had been killed.
Again the homely, everyday details of daily living refuted a vicious attempt to frighten her- or to murder her.
`` If you had n't I 'd have killed you''.
No, they could kill him just_as easy right_now.
They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.
Race-drivers, on_the_other_hand, are quite often killed on the circuit, and since it was obviously Mr._Remarque 's intention to establish automobile racing as life in microcosm, one might reasonably have expected him to demonstrate precise knowledge not_only of techniques but of mores and attitudes.
`` Exterminatin' cow thieves is just a business proposition with me'', he 'd blandly announce.
In 1896 a Japanese tsunami killed 27000 people and swept_away 10000 homes.
`` He killed Tom- do you understand that''?
It was not very reasonable to believe that Lucien had procured unprocurable opium and come_back to Honotassa with a formed plan to murder her.
`` Let the savages kill each other What do we care''?
He killed accurately, freely, and dispassionately.
Because I 'm looking_for the son_of_a_bitch that killed that old_man, and I 'm going_to get him.
But he plunges into yet another, this time with Norway, and is killed in an assault on the fortress of Fredrikshall, being only thirty-six years of_age when he died.
Douglas has consistently voted to aid the people who killed Masaryk, and against principles Masaryk died to uphold.
If the railroads, for_example, regularly slaughtered 25000 passengers each_year, the high_priests of the cult would have cause to tremble for their personal safety, for such a holocaust would excite demands for the hanging of every railroad president in the United_States.
did the damn Reactionaries bump him off?
Another man tried to swim across the river from the East to the West, but was shot and killed.
Although my shot killed his horse, he rolled off the bale on top of me.
`` Do get yourself killed for something that does concern you''.
They hurled a cement barge against a freighter in Honolulu_Harbor, knocked_down telephone_lines, marooned automobiles, flooded lawns, killed six cows.
The article proceeded to give an inaccurate account of a catholic plot to kill King_James_/1_1,.
It was paired with a Darius_Milhaud opera,`` The Poor_Sailor'', set_to a libretto by Jean_Cocteau, a kind_of Grand_Guignol by the sea, a sailor returns, unrecognized, and gets done_in by his wife.
They killed Big_Charlie, dumped his body in my rose_garden two nights ago.
He fought it, seeking to kill the last few words, but on they came`` bout takin- his''.
Artillery and strikes were called_in to kill them by the hundreds.
He kills when he pleases, takes his women where he finds them and always acts_as judge, jury and executioner rolled_into_one.
If 500 Japanese were ordered to hold a position, we had to kill 495 before it was ours- and_then the last five killed themselves''.
As our planes land the war materiel that kills pro-Western Katangans, we stand supinely bleating while Nehru 's troops smash into a five-hundred-year-old district of our NATO ally, Portugal.
Take_off or see the hostages killed.
Maude could have shot Emile- if she 'd had a reason to kill him.
If he had been`` liquidated'' in_some_way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying_point for people who shared his ideas.
Worse still, in a number of cases it has been claimed that the Psithyrus female kills_off the Bombus queen.
Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian_W._Barnard will be_presented to the Montgomery_County_Court_Friday, it was_disclosed Tuesday by Horace_A._Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard 's hit-run car.
Trig and a very black colored boy from Detroit had killed or put out_of action ten guerrillas by grenades and hand-to-hand fighting.
But slowly they take_over as Alain_Delon( Life, Sept. 15), playing a sometimes appealing but always criminal boy, casually tells a rich and foot-loose American that he is going_to murder him, then does it even while the American is trying to puzzle_out how Delon expects to profit from the act.
In West_Africa, for_example, where meat is a luxury and babies must be weaned early to make room at the breast for later arrivals, a childhood menace is kwashiorkor, or`` red Johnny'', a growth-stunting protein deficiency( signs: reddish hair, bloated belly) that kills more_than half its victims, leaves the rest prey for parasites and lingering tropical disease.
If Hal_Yarrow had been killed in a crash, he must have wanted it that way.
Or you could wish your daddy would really do it- kill Gratt_Shafer like he said when you all_the_time, all_along, could feel the nerve draining out of him like air out of a punctured tire when you are on a muddy road alone and it is raining and at night.
He at_once cancels the celebrations and, buckling on his scimitar, stumbles blindly from the house, where he is hit and killed by a passing oxcart.
`` If you 're goin' to kill' em- kill' em''!
She was ready to kill the beef, dress it out, and with vegetables from her garden was going_to can soup, broth, hash, and stew against the winter.
`` Some_day'', I told Eileen,`` that guy will kill us both''.
He was also at_the_same_time gaining practical experience as a safe_breaker and highwayman, and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal murderer named Gene_Geary, later committed to Chester_Asylum as a homicidal maniac, but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor.
Perhaps Khrushchev is in a more difficult position than any since 1957, when the`` anti-party group'' nearly liquidated him.
Police theorize that a combination of dope, drink and drugs killed her.
Two of our men were killed, a third was wounded.
And every sound that might be the rain also might be the man who thinks after he has raped you he has to beat your brains out with a tire_tool so you won tell, a combination like ham_and_eggs, rape her and kill her, and that is being an old_maid too.
There is plenty of violence, to_be_sure, but it is a nice violence and no one gets killed.
Why, I can get them knocked_off for half that_much''.
`` So help me, Crouch, I 'd like to kill you where you stand, but, before I do, I 'm going_to hear you admit killing him.
`` Listen, I never had a chance to kill an antelope.
Instead, he whirled and ran to his house for a gun forcing them to kill him, Cook reported.
Even while suffering the trip to his home, Cook swore to Moore and Lane that he would kill the Indian.
To come_back later and kill him after the stores had closed around the square and everybody had left?
No need to kill an entire city and all its people because we lacked the precision and reconnaissance to selectively disarm the enemy 's military_force.
The war could have continued many years with many thousands killed on both sides.
I 'm telling you, if these corpses ever knew the trouble they put us to, they 'd think_twice before letting themselves get knocked_off''.
You killed him, did you''?
In a periodic review, the local board on July 30, 1953, reclassified him 1_,_-_A and upheld this classification after a personal appearance by petitioner, because of his willingness to kill in defense of his church and home.