tueur

Definitions of tueur
  1. noun
    someone who causes the death of a person or animal
    synonyms: assassin
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    bourreau
    an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant
    assassin, étrangleur
    someone who kills by strangling
    assassin, meurtrier
    a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
    suicidé
    a person who kills himself intentionally
    assassin
    a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed
    boucher
    a brutal indiscriminate murderer
    assassin
    someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat
    bourreau
    an executioner who hangs the condemned person
    assassin
    a woman murderer
    type of:
    homme, individu, mortel, être
    a human being
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