meurtrir

to murder; to injure, hurt; to bruise, especially in reference to fruit; to leave a contusion; to hurt or injure someone's feelings

Inherited from Middle French meurtrir (“to bruise, leave a mark on the skin, tear, hurt, murder”) from Old French meurtrir, murtrir (“to kill, slaughter, murder”), from Frankish *murþrijan (“to murder”), from Proto-Germanic *murþrijaną (“to kill, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mrtro- (“murder, death”), from *mer-, *mor-, *mr- (“to die”). Akin to Old High German murdrjan, murdren, murdiren (“to kill, murder”) (whence modern German mördern (“to murder”)), Old English myrþrian (“to murder”), O