Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who commits murder.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A person who commits murder.
- n. Some destructive piece of ordnance. One kind thus named was usually placed, on shipboard, at the bulkheads of the forecastle, half-deck, and steerage, and used to prevent an enemy from boarding. Also murdering-piece.
- n. Synonyms Manslayer, cutthroat, assassin, thug. See kill, transitive verb
Wiktionary
- n. A person who commits murder.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.
- n. obsolete A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also
murdering piece .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
Etymologies
- murder + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Can you ever hope for salvation and the light of God's presence, while the cry of the souls of which you have been _the murderer_ -- yes, do not disguise it, the _murderer_, the cruel, willing, pitiless murderer -- is ringing upwards from the depths of hell? ”
“The newspaper had used the term murderer, and other terms McBride considered defamatory, in a series of columns questioning his appointment to the police chief post.”
“Obama and Holder are fools to think that having a civilian court for this murderer is the correct direction.”
“However, I think calling somebody a murderer is a pretty serious charge (even in the court of public opinion) so I will refrain from doing so until I know for sure.”
Think Progress » Don Blankenship Called Safety Regulators ‘As Silly As Global Warming’
“And then, the murderer is there and Samuels is absent — and, psychologically, the one who is absent is at a disadvantage.”
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
“This leads her to believe that the murderer is a shougi player.”
“This leads her to believe that the murderer is a shogi player.”
“The suggestion that murdering a murderer is the same as the murderer having committed murder is absolutely illogical.”
“The Bleeding Nun tells Rodolphe that the death of her murderer is the price of his freedom.”
Lewis/Gounod's Bleeding Nonne: An Introduction and Translation of the Scribe/Delavigne Libretto
“I was able to defeat it with a passage from Genesis that says something about murder of a murderer is acceptable.”
Think Progress » Bush’s Primetime Speech: The Big Unanswered Question
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘murderer’.
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Bad Options
words for those who commit particular crimes: i.e., bank robber, arsonist, etc.
liar, cheat, traitor, arsonist, felon, braggard, thief, profiteer, impostor, phony, fraud, culprit and 212 more...
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-erer
words that finish with a double er: an usual list of doers
ricerer, ponderer, echoerer, eerierer, elderer, eyelinerer, alterer, blusterer, chatterer, offerer, answerer, bickerer and 100 more...
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Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
Check out reesetee's nice Bad Guys l...arsonist, safecracker, murderer, rapist, getaway man, jewel thief, accomplice, drug dealer, carjacker, gunrunner, industrial spy, human trafficker and 216 more...
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people (bad)
nouns for bad people / words that describe bad people.
goto the good people list
( people, character, descriptor, noun )culprit, perpetrator, tormentor, swindler, bamboozler, nincompoop, thief, liar, back stabber, vandal, burglar, cheater and 85 more...
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No Dearth of Deadly Designations
catafalque, cenotaph, necropolis, sepulcher, sarcophagus, mausoleum, reliquary, ossuary, necrosis, cadaver, cadaverous, pyre and 103 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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Scriptie: The Two Towers
dampen, treacherous, black gate, man-flesh, precious, elvish, dwarf, pursuit, quarry, hobbit, sprinters, horse lords and 236 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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The "dark" things
grave, dead, death, die, died, dies, murder, murdered, murderer, murders, murdering, murderous and 115 more...
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the criminal element
footpad, duped, murderer, machination, sinister, assailant, blackguard, felon, hooligan, knave, miscreant, saboteur and 8 more...
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They Stumble Off The Tongue
Words that are painful to say. The English language was meant to flow, and these words deserve exile. A complement to the list They Roll Off The Tongue.
interrobang, viviparous, irredentist, hypotension, betelgeuse, hough, infrared, ghoti, gloucester, colonel, oases, aposiopesis and 18 more...
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Ugly Words--short U
Short U is ugliest before multiple consonants.
turgid, mulch, lurch, pulpy, vermin, hurl, month, murderer, culture, cult, earworm, worm and 19 more...
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criminal elements
thief, con man, robber, mastermind, murderer, forger, hooker, hitman, henchman
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