| NOUN | person | killer, slayer | someone who causes the death of a person or animal |
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| state | killer, cause of death | the causal agent resulting in death | |
| cognition | killer | a difficulty that is hard to deal with | |
| animal | killer, killer whale, orca, grampus, sea wolf, Orcinus orca | predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin |
| Sounds | kih'ler | |
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| Rhymes | alveolar ... Ziegler: 240 rhymes with ler... | |
| Meaning | someone who causes the death of a person or animal. | |
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| Synonym | slayer | |
| Narrower | executioner, public executioner | An official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant |
| exterminator, terminator, eradicator | someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects) | |
| garroter, garrotter, strangler, throttler, choker | someone who kills by strangling | |
| murderer, liquidator, manslayer | A criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful / unlawful / unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) | |
| poisoner | someone who kills with poison | |
| regicide | someone who commits regicide | |
| suicide, felo-de-se | A person who kills himself intentionally | |
| Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul | A human being |
| Spanish | asesino, homicida | |
| Catalan | assassí, homicida | |
| Verbs | kill | cause to die |
| Meaning | The causal agent resulting in death. | |
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| Example | "heart disease is the biggest killer in the United States" | |
| Synonym | cause of death | |
| Broader | causal agent, cause, causal agency | Any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results |
| Verbs | kill | cause to die |
| kill | cause the death of, without intention | |
| Meaning | A difficulty that is hard to deal with. | |
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| Example | "that exam was a real killer" | |
| Broader | difficulty | A factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result |
| Verbs | kill | be the source of great pain for |
| Meaning | predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas. | |
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| Synonyms | killer whale, orca, grampus, sea wolf, Orcinus orca | |
| Member of | Orcinus, genus Orcinus | killer whales |
| Broader | dolphin | Any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout |
| Spanish | orca | |
| Catalan | orca, Orcinus orca | |
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