Definition of murderer Murderer
/mɚˈdɚɚ/ - [merderer] - mur•der•er
We found 8 definitions of murderer from 7 different sources.
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What does murderer mean?
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NounPlural: murderers |
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| murderer - a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) | ||
| liquidator, manslayer | ||
| criminal, malefactor, outlaw, felon, crook someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | ||
| slayer, killer a difficulty that is hard to deal with; "that exam was a real killer" | ||
| assassinator, assassin, bravo a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed; "his assassins were hunted down like animals"; "assassinators of kings and emperors" | ||
| butcher a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | ||
| cutthroat someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat | ||
| fratricide the murder of your sibling | ||
| triggerman, hitman, hit man, hired gun, gunslinger, gun for hire, gunman, shooter, torpedo, gun a professional killer who uses a gun | ||
| hatchet man, iceman one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior | ||
| infanticide murdering an infant | ||
| mass murderer a person who is responsible for the deaths of many victims in a single incident | ||
| murderess a woman murderer | ||
| parricide the murder of your own father or mother | ||
| ripper a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife; "Jack the Ripper was probably a madman" | ||
| serial killer, serial murderer someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval | ||
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Wiktionary 
- murderer (Noun)
A person who commits murder.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- murderer (n.)
One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice. - murderer (n.)
A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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murderer
A person who has commited murder.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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murderer
The name formerly used for large blunderbusses, as well as for those small pieces of ordnance which were loaded by shifting metal chambers placed in the breech.
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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murderer
A great piece of artillery. Among the ordnance given up to Monk with Edinburgh Castle in 1650 is mentioned “The great iron murderer, Muckle Meg.”
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🔤- murderer, noun, singular of murderers.
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