Crossword clues for murderer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 also murdering piece. [Obs.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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
n. A person who commits murder.
WordNet
n. a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) [syn: liquidator, manslayer]
Wikipedia
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 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 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.
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?