Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who commits murder.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who commits murder.
- noun Some destructive piece of ordnance. One kind thus named was usually placed, on shipboard, at the bulkheads of the forecastle, half-deck, and steerage, and used to prevent an enemy from boarding. Also
murdering-piece . - noun Synonyms Manslayer, cutthroat, assassin, thug. See
kill , transitive verb
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.
- noun obsolete A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also
murdering piece .
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- noun A person who commits
murder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Can you ever hope for salvation and the light of God's presence, while the cry of the souls of which you have been _the murderer_ -- yes, do not disguise it, the _murderer_, the cruel, willing, pitiless murderer -- is ringing upwards from the depths of hell? "
Julian Home 1867
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The newspaper had used the term murderer, and other terms McBride considered defamatory, in a series of columns questioning his appointment to the police chief post.
Guardian Online 2010
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However, I think calling somebody a murderer is a pretty serious charge (even in the court of public opinion) so I will refrain from doing so until I know for sure.
Think Progress » Don Blankenship Called Safety Regulators ‘As Silly As Global Warming’ 2010
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However, I think calling somebody a murderer is a pretty serious charge (even in the court of public opinion) so I will refrain from doing so until I know for sure.
Think Progress » Don Blankenship Called Safety Regulators ‘As Silly As Global Warming’ 2010
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However, I think calling somebody a murderer is a pretty serious charge (even in the court of public opinion) so I will refrain from doing so until I know for sure.
Think Progress » Don Blankenship Called Safety Regulators ‘As Silly As Global Warming’ 2010
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Obama and Holder are fools to think that having a civilian court for this murderer is the correct direction.
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This leads her to believe that the murderer is a shougi player.
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This leads her to believe that the murderer is a shogi player.
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And then, the murderer is there and Samuels is absent — and, psychologically, the one who is absent is at a disadvantage.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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The suggestion that murdering a murderer is the same as the murderer having committed murder is absolutely illogical.
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