Term: blue murder: an extravagantly loud outcry
Candidate hypernym: cry: a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition → 1
Candidate hypernym: ligustrum: genus of Old World shrubs: privet → 0
Candidate hypernym: monster: an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts → 0
Candidate hypernym: diagnostic procedure: a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis → 0
Candidate hypernym: webworm: several gregarious moth larvae that spin webs over foliage on which they feed → 0
Candidate hypernym: dishrag: a cloth for washing dishes → 0
Candidate hypernym: nafcillin: a penicillinase-resistant form of penicillin (trade name Nafcil) used (usually in the form of its sodium salt) to treat infections caused by penicillin-resistant strains of staphylococci → 0
Candidate hypernym: quadruplet: one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy → 0
Candidate hypernym: aggrandizement: the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something → 0
Candidate hypernym: eye opener: something surprising and revealing → 0
Candidate hypernym: apparatus: (anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function → 0