asesino

Definitions of asesino
  1. noun
    someone who causes the death of a person or animal
    synonyms: homicida
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    sayón, verdugo
    an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant
    exterminador
    someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)
    estrangulador
    someone who kills by strangling
    envenenador
    someone who kills with poison
    regicida
    someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king
    suicida
    a person who kills himself intentionally
    asesino a sueldo
    a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed
    carnicero
    a brutal indiscriminate murderer
    asesino profesional
    a professional killer who uses a gun
    verdugo
    an executioner who hangs the condemned person
    asesina
    a woman murderer
    parricida
    someone who kills his or her parent
    destripador
    a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife
    asesino en serie
    someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval
    type of:
    alma, humano, individuo, mortal, persona, ser humano
    a human being
  2. noun
    a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
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    asesino a sueldo
    a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed
    carnicero
    a brutal indiscriminate murderer
    asesino profesional
    a professional killer who uses a gun
    asesina
    a woman murderer
    parricida
    someone who kills his or her parent
    destripador
    a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife
    asesino en serie
    someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval
    type of:
    criminal, delincuente, malhechor, proscrito, transgresor, trasgresor
    someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
    homicida
    someone who causes the death of a person or animal
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