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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
murderer
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 year, Esquire magazine sent contributing editor Philip Caputo to Stockton to discover what might have motivated the mass murderer.
▪ The art of a mass murderer.
▪ I was sitting with my feet up, watching a film about a puerto Rican mass murderer.
▪ The puerto Rican mass murderer was letting off a pump-action shotgun into a bus queue in downtown Los Angeles.
▪ Especially when I am watching puerto Rican mass murderers.
▪ Just one of those casual I-can-do-anything-I-want-any-time-I-want-and-make-you-like-it gestures so beloved of megalomaniacs, mass murderers and the Gunmint.
▪ The families of mass murderer Allitt's victims are also demanding that any inquiry be held in public.
serial
▪ One was about a Machine hit man who emerges from early retirement when his wife is slain by a serial murderer.
▪ But I never thought he was a serial murderer.
■ VERB
become
▪ Her two sons sought retribution for their father, but Rlta would rather her sons died than become murderers.
bring
▪ He attempted to bring Nahaman's murderers to justice.
▪ It's his job to bring the murderer of the old money-lender and her sister to justice.
▪ Now Benjamin had unmasked many a killer and brought numerous murderers to boot.
catch
▪ They hope that today's announcement of a £650 reward will bring them closer to catching the murderer.
▪ Dalziel had caught her murderer 19 years before.
▪ Now detectives can only hope that publicity surrounding the funeral will encourage some one to come forward and help them catch the murderer.
▪ No, I want to plot and catch an evil murderer.
convict
▪ The immorality of capital punishment does not lie in the sympathy level of a particular convicted murderer.
▪ It is time to indict, try and convict the murderers of Feb. 24.
▪ Sometimes, regrettably, though the idea may make us cringe, that voice may be that of a convicted murderer.
▪ That certainly is the case in Harris County, which sentences more convicted murderers to death than any other county.
▪ Another pro bono endeavor involves representing a convicted murderer from Indiana.
▪ President Truman ordered Clark to take every action to apprehend and convict the murderers.
find
▪ But, despite the new medical findings, police appear to be no closer to finding the murderer.
▪ Then they told me that the police had found the murderer.
▪ On the left, the problem of solving the King's death, of finding the murderer.
▪ She was being paid to find this murderer, and find him she would!
▪ Confusing stories are circulating along with rumours and half-truths as people, in their desperation, try to help find the murderers.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
serial killer/murderer etc
▪ Ex-Ornette Coleman sideman Ronald Shannon Jackson was on drums, occasionally adding creepy blues vocals worthy of a serial killer.
▪ Read the February issue of eve to find out, and discuss whether serial killers are born that way below.
▪ She enlists the help of psychiatrist / author Sigourney Weaver, an expert on serial killers.
▪ She escapes and later discovers that her attacker is a suspected serial killer.
▪ She is a serial killer who picks up men in the Métro.
▪ There are a lot of courtroom drama books and serial killer tales about, but this one is special.
would-be actor/murderer etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A convicted murderer was on the run last night after escaping from Lewes prison.
▪ a convicted murderer
▪ Do you think the police will ever catch her murderer?
▪ In prison he enjoyed reading biographies of other mass murderers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Her two sons sought retribution for their father, but Rita would rather her sons died than become murderers.
▪ Might not a murderer, she wondered, erase the memory of the deed?
▪ Or put them in jail with murderers and hooligans all in the name of Karl Marx and Lenin.
▪ She did not like what she had been, murdered or murderer, victim or vampire.
▪ That year, Esquire magazine sent contributing editor Philip Caputo to Stockton to discover what might have motivated the mass murderer.
▪ The announcement shocked the nation, and many people hoped the murderers would be brought to justice.
▪ The Moors murderer Ian Brady, 62, has been denied the right to starve himself to death.
▪ What is there about a murderer that can make him so irresistible?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Murderer

Murderer \Mur"der*er\ (m[^u]r"d[~e]r*[~e]r), n.

  1. One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.

  2. A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece. [Obs.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
murderer

mid-14c., alteration of murtherer (c.1300), agent noun from murder (v.); in part from Old French mordrere, from Medieval Latin murdrarius, from Germanic. Old English words for this included morðorcwalu, morðorslaga, morðorwyrhta, literally "murder-wright." The original murderer's row was in New York City's Tombs prison; figurative use in baseball dates to 1858, though the quintessential one was the 1927 New York Yankees. Fem. form murderess attested from late 14c. Murderee (1920) never caught on.

Wiktionary
murderer

n. A person who commits murder.

WordNet
murderer

n. a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) [syn: liquidator, manslayer]

Wikipedia
Murderer (song)

Murderer is a 10" EP by Duluth, Minnesota slowcore group Low, released in 2003. Limited to 2000 copies worldwide. 1000 numbered copies on black vinyl in the US, 500 copies on translucent red colored vinyl (numbered) in Europe, and the final 500 copies on clear vinyl, to be sold in a boxed set once the series of Vinyl Films 10" releases is completed. In addition to the 2000 declared copies, there exists "promotional" copies that were pressed on dark red/black swirl. The art for this record is by Duluth, Minnesota photographer Jason Huntzinger.

Track A1 differs from the version that appears on the full-length release, Drums and Guns.

Track A2 differs from the version that appears on the full-length release, The Great Destroyer.

Murderer (play)

Murderer is a 1975 comedy/ thriller play written by Anthony Shaffer. Set in Dorset, England, the play tells the story of Norman Bartholomew, a painter who is obsessed with famous murderers of the past. He takes great pleasure in recreating their crimes, and hopes to one day join their ranks by performing a murder of his own.

Murderer (film)

Murderer is a 2009 Hong Kong thriller film directed by Roy Chow, and starring Aaron Kwok. The film centers on a police detective investigating a series of gruesome murderers. As the case pulls him deeper, he soon realizes that he may be a prime suspect. The film co-stars Janine Chang, Cheung Siu-fai, Josie Ho and Chin Kar-lok, who also served as an action choreographer. Murderer is a co-production between Focus Features and EDKO Film, and was released theatrically in Hong Kong on 9 July 2009.

Murderer (disambiguation)

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 play written by Anthony Shaffer
  • "Murderer" (song), a 2003 EP by Low
  • "Murderer", a song by Krisiun on the album Works of Carnage
  • " The Murderer", a 1953 short story by Ray Bradbury
  • "Murderers", a song by John Frusciante on the album To Record Only Water for Ten Days
  • Murderers (film), a 2006 film

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?