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murderer
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Murderer \Mur"der*er\ (m[^u]r"d[~e]r*[~e]r), n. One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice. A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A murderer is a person who commits murder , the unlawful killing of a human being by another. Murderer or Murderers may also refer to: Murderer (film) , a 2009 Hong Kong mystery thriller film directed by Roy Chow Murderer (play) , a 1975 comedy/thriller ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES mass murderer COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE convicted ▪ Many a convicted murderer had displayed that sort of control. mass ▪ But at this moment Kate could not have cared less if he was a mass murderer . ▪ That ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) [syn: liquidator , manslayer ]
Usage examples of murderer.
It was estimated that before the adjournment of Congress more than a thousand negroes and many white Unionists had been murdered in the South, without even the slightest attempt at prosecuting the murderers.
Hardfaced men--the agitators who had been prominent in the trouble from the first--mounted soap boxes at street corners, and began to label Aunt Nora as a sinister woman, and Doc Savage a murderer and worse.
All in one lithe operation, the murderer was off into the night, carrying the alumite bust as a bonus.
Yet he felt all a murderer as he gazed at the ten small carcasses laid out arow, and the memory of his vigil and its end, indeed of the whole day, though it was the day of his most marvelous adventure, remains to him as the broken recollections of a phantasmagoria.
Mopo the murderer, he who vanished from the land after the death of my uncle Dingaan, gave you the little red assegai, did he, Opener of Roads!
She remembered what young Chandler had said the other day--that there had never been, in the history of the world, so strange a murderer as The Avenger had proved himself to be.
It was plain to The Shadow that murderers had not cared just where Bayle died, though they would probably have preferred him to fall from a cab, the way he had.
He had presumed that Larry Chandler had recognized Dana Brye as the murderer of Thomas Grennel.
I mean was the motive really money and did the murderer think Donna gave Bunchy the money, sort of?
That trembling ass, Bunning, singing now at the top of his voice, shaking with the fervour of it, let him know that he had brought a murderer to the sacred gathering--again Olva had to concentrate all his mind, his force, his power upon the conquest of his nerves.
In Bushido, the life of one lone samurai mattered less than the capture of a murderer and traitor.
The moment he had flung his brother into that dark stream, and the waters closed above him greedily that he was gone--gone for ever, he first threw in stones to make a noise like life upon the stream, but that cheatery was only for an instant: he was alone--a murderer, alone!
Since he was certain the murderer was a formal member of the citizenry, a private investigator would serve no purpose but to alert the man to be more careful.
While Kurman and Cleer suspected Wylett blindly, The Shadow had real reasons for classing Wylett as the murderer.
Are not convicted murderers buried coffinless and in quick-lime after the hanging?