English > murderer: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful / unlawful / unlawful premeditated killing of another human being). |
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| Synonyms | liquidator, manslayer |
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| Instances | Jack the Ripper | An unidentified English murderer in the 19th century |
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| Narrower | assassin, assassinator, bravo | A murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed |
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| butcher | A brutal indiscriminate murderer |
| cutthroat | someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat |
| fratricide | A person who murders their brother or sister |
| gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire, triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter | A professional killer who uses a gun |
| hatchet man, iceman | A professional killer |
| infanticide | A person who murders an infant |
| mass murderer | A person who is responsible for the deaths of many victims in a single incident |
| murderess | A woman murderer |
| parricide | someone who kills his or her parent |
| ripper | A murderer who slashes / slashes the victims with a knife |
| serial killer, serial murderer | someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval |
| Broader | criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor | someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime |
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| killer, slayer | someone who causes the death of a person or animal |
| Spanish | asesina, asesino, homicida |
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| Catalan | assassí, homicida |
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| Verbs | murder | kill intentionally and with premeditation |
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