What does murderer mean?
Definitions for murderer
ˈmɜr dər ərmur·der·er
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Princeton's WordNet
murderer, liquidator, manslayernoun
a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
Wiktionary
murderernoun
A person who commits murder.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Murderernoun
One who has shed human blood unlawfully; one who has killed a man criminally.
Etymology: from murder.
Thou dost kill me with thy unkind falsehood, and it grieves me not to die; but it grieves me that thou art the murderer. Philip Sidney, b. ii.
I am his host,
Who should against his murd’rer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.Thou tell’st me there is murder in mine eyes;
’Tis pretty sure,
That eyes, that are the frail’st and softest things,
Who shut their coward gates on atomies,
Should be call’d tyrants, butchers, murderers. William Shakespeare.The very horrour of the fact had stupified all curiosity, and so dispersed the multitude, that even the murderer himself might have escaped. Henry Wotton.
Like some rich or mighty murderer,
Too great for prison, which he breaks with gold,
Who fresher for new mischiefs does appear,
And dares the world to tax him with the old. Dryden.This stranger having had a brother killed by the conspirator, and having till now sought in vain for an opportunity of revenge, chanced to meet the murderer in the temple. Joseph Addison, Guardian, №. 177.
With equal terrors, not with equal guilt,
The murderer dreams of all the blood he spilt. Jonathan Swift.
Wikipedia
murderer
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. This state of mind may, depending upon the jurisdiction, distinguish murder from other forms of unlawful homicide, such as manslaughter. Manslaughter is killing committed in the absence of malice, brought about by reasonable provocation, or diminished capacity. Involuntary manslaughter, where it is recognized, is a killing that lacks all but the most attenuated guilty intent, recklessness. Most societies consider murder to be an extremely serious crime, and thus that a person convicted of murder should receive harsh punishments for the purposes of retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, or incapacitation. In most countries, a person convicted of murder generally faces a long-term prison sentence, a life sentence, or capital punishment.
Webster Dictionary
Murderernoun
one guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice
Murderernoun
a small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece
The Roycroft Dictionary
murderer
1. A savior of society. Synonyms: Soldier, hangman, doctor. 2. A man born ahead of or after his time.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
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 Dictionary and Gazetteer
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.”
British National Corpus
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'murderer' in Nouns Frequency: #2779
Anagrams for murderer »
demurrer
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of murderer in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of murderer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of murderer in a Sentence
To me, Peter is not a murderer.
Do they mean to tell me the sheriff won’t prosecute the person who provided a murderer, illegally, with a gun?
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.
I don't think there has been more than 1 or 2 attorneys in the United States that have dealt with a position like this, very seldom do you find a mass murderer having assets.
How do you negotiate with a terrorist or mass murderer ? You don't, the more time you give him, the more people that are killed.
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- moordenaarAfrikaans
- قاتلArabic
- qatilAzerbaijani
- забойцаBelarusian
- убиец, убийцаBulgarian
- assassíCatalan, Valencian
- vrahCzech
- morderDanish
- Mörder, MörderinGerman
- δολοφόνοςGreek
- murdintoEsperanto
- asesino, asesinaSpanish
- mõrtsukasEstonian
- قاتلPersian
- murhaajaFinnish
- meurtrière, meurtrierFrench
- murtairScottish Gaelic
- רוצחHebrew
- हत्याराHindi
- gyilkosHungarian
- մարդասպանArmenian
- pembunuhIndonesian
- morðingiIcelandic
- assassinoItalian
- 殺人者, 人殺しJapanese
- მკვლელიGeorgian
- қаныпезер, қанішерKazakh
- ឃាតករKhmer
- 살인자, 殺人者Korean
- өлтүрүүчү, өлтүргүчKyrgyz
- homocīdaLatin
- Mäerder, MäerderinLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- žmogžudysLithuanian
- slepkavaLatvian
- убиец, катиљMacedonian
- алуурчинMongolian
- pembunuhMalay
- moordenaarDutch
- morderNorwegian
- zabójca, mordercaPolish
- assassina, assassino, homicidaPortuguese
- criminalRomanian
- душегуб, киллер, убийцаRussian
- olmmošgoddiNorthern Sami
- убица, убојица, ubica, ubojicaSerbo-Croatian
- vrahSlovak
- morilka, morilecSlovene
- vrasësAlbanian
- mördareSwedish
- హంతకుడుTelugu
- қотил, одамкуш, кушандаTajik
- ฆาตกรThai
- ganhorTurkmen
- katilTurkish
- душогуб, вбивця, убивцяUkrainian
- qotilUzbek
- kẻ giết ngườiVietnamese
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