half murder

noun

noun

India, Idiomatic The committing of a grievous, but not fatal, injury.

That was the half murder. The next one was a liquor seller, Philips Daruwala, and that was the first proper murder.2009, Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, page 192:
Before he could get out Rita was already arrested for half-murder of her step-father.2017, Priya Gaikwad, Prison Diaries: How Dare She be a Woman and Have Dreams of Freedom:

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