Modifies a noun

• rampage: In response, Reece goes on a murderous rampage which draws Sexton Blake into the affair.

• dictator: She calls Robert Mugabe ' a murderous dictator ' .

• tyrant: The answer may well put the murderous tyrant in second place.

• intent: I chased the cat through the house at 4 AM with murderous intent.

• thug: Stalin was a murderous thug who had destroyed the revolution.

• rage: But there were side effects; people had been thrown into murderous rages, once again bringing homicide to the streets.

Modifying Another Word

• even: But most of the time our anger is rooted in selfishness, our thoughts are evil, even murderous.

• potentially: This was perfectly clear evidence of the involvement of these two suspects in a potentially murderous attack.

• often: Tensions and bloodshed have resulted with violent and often murderous attacks on white farmers and their families.

• sometimes: Also in 2000 a violent and sometimes murderous campaign began, in which disaffected Zimbabweans forcibly seized land from white-owned farms.

• possibly: His next novel is ' The Killing Circle ' , a gripping psychological thriller about a mysterious, possibly murderous, book group.

• so: So murderous was this firepower, and the river's current so swift, that these Divisions could not fight their way across.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: You might only be sitting in a traffic jam feeling murderous, but your body thinks you need to run away fast!

• turn: He supports his friend in a tit for tat exchange that turns murderous.