| NOUN | person | slayer, killer | someone who causes the death of a person or animal |
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| Sounds | sley'er | |
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| Rhymes | assayer ... taxpayer: 22 rhymes with eyer... | |
| Meaning | someone who causes the death of a person or animal. | |
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| Synonym | killer | |
| 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 | slay | kill intentionally and with premeditation |
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