murderer
murderers
If you’re looking for a roommate and someone writes murderer under “occupation,” you should definitely keep looking. A murderer is a person who kills deliberately and without justification.
In some instances, killing a person is considered a just or valid action — in a war, a soldier who kills another soldier is not considered to be a murderer, and people who kill in self-defense, to save themselves, are also not murderers. Killing out of anger or for money or revenge is murder, and anyone who does it is a murderer. Charles Manson is in jail for being a murderer. The Old English root of murderer is morðor, "unlawful killing."
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a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
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synonyms:
liquidator, manslayer
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examples:
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Jack the Ripper
an unidentified English murderer in the 19th century
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John Wilkes Booth
United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865)
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Lee Harvey Oswald
United States assassin of President John F. Kennedy (1939-1963)
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types:
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assassin, assassinator, 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
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butcher
a brutal indiscriminate murderer
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cutthroat
someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat
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fratricide
a person who murders their brother or sister
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gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman
a professional killer who uses a gun
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hatchet man, iceman
a professional killer
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infanticide
a person who murders an infant
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mass murderer
a person who is responsible for the deaths of many victims in a single incident
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murderess
a woman murderer
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parricide
someone who kills his or her parent
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ripper
a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife
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serial killer, serial murderer
someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval
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matricide
a person who murders their mother
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patricide
a person who murders their father
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spree killer
a serial killer whose murders occur within a brief period of time
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Jack the Ripper
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