murderer

murderer
A person who commits murder.

It was two oclock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty

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  • murderer — (n.) mid 14c., alteration of murtherer (c.1300), agent noun from MURDER (Cf. murder) (v.); in part from O.Fr. mordrere, from M.L. murdrarius, from Germanic. Old English words for this included morðorcwalu, morðorslaga, morðorwyrhta, lit. murder… …   Etymology dictionary

  • Murderer — Mur der*er (m[^u]r d[ e]r*[ e]r), n. 1. One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice. [1913 Webster] 2. A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship s decks of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • murderer — [n] person who kills assassin, butcher, criminal, cutthroat, enforcer, executioner, hit and run*, hit person*, homicide, killer, manslaughterer, perpetrator, slaughterer, slayer, soldier, trigger person*; concept 412 …   New thesaurus

  • murderer — [mur′dər ər] n. a person who commits or has committed murder …   English World dictionary

  • murderer — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ accused (esp. BrE), alleged, suspected ▪ convicted ▪ potential, would be ▪ Does the death penalty deter would be murderers? …   Collocations dictionary

  • murderer — [[t]mɜ͟ː(r)dərə(r)[/t]] murderers N COUNT A murderer is a person who has murdered someone. One of these men may have been the murderer. ...a notorious mass murderer …   English dictionary

  • murderer */ — UK [ˈmɜː(r)dərə(r)] / US [ˈmɜrdərər] noun [countable] Word forms murderer : singular murderer plural murderers someone who commits murder a mass murderer (= someone who has killed several people) …   English dictionary

  • murderer — n. a mass; serial murderer * * * serial murderer a mass …   Combinatory dictionary

  • murderer — mur|der|er [ˈmə:dərə US ˈmə:rdərər] n someone who murders another person ▪ a convicted murderer ▪ his brother s murderer …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • murderer — noun a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) (Freq. 12) • Syn: ↑liquidator, ↑manslayer • Derivationally related forms: ↑liquidate (for: ↑liquidator), ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

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