murderer
mur·derer (mur′dər ər)
noun
a person who commits or has committed murder
Converse of object
- convict: Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is set free at the same time.
- punish: Following Uthman's murder Ali did not attempt to punish the murderers.
- accuse: Zack winds up as the accused murderer and must get himself off the hook.
- condemn: There was an inhuman silence in the room, like that sea of inhuman silence round the dock of the condemned murderer.
- execute: The executed murderer repeats his crime, sees his victim and suffers remorse over and over again.
- catch: We're going to help her catch a murderer.
Adjective modifier
- cold-blooded: Are you ready to be a cold-blooded murderer also, or can we do anything to stop it?
- psychopathic: The older target readership becomes immediately apparent when you find that the main villain is a psychopathic murderer!
- notorious: Dr. Crippen Crippen is one of the most notorious murderers in the history of Scotland Yard.
- would-be: Armed with these she sets out to track down her would-be murderers.
- serial: We now know that, in later years, Shipman was to become a serial murderer.
- ruthless: As such they were vulnerable and prone to attack out of the blue by merciless bandits who were renowned and ruthless murderers.
Noun used with modifier
- ax: She'd prefer the ax murderer to Troy Marsden, the weird guy who lived on the property up the track.
- mass: Saddam Hussein was a proven mass murderer who refused to account for his weapons of mass murder.
- quot: Quot murderers ' row his take on with the crowd.
- wife: Once he'd been a rising barrister who obtained the conviction of a wife murderer.
Possessives
- row: Quot line-up you quot murderers ' row military check who room for dinner.
Possessives
- father: Oedipus: I had no wish to be my father's murderer, old man.
- son: Robin Oake has found the grace to forgive, Kamel Bourgass, his son's alleged murderer.
Preposition: from
- beginning: He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him.
You were the jailer of your murdererö
You can always count on a murderer fora fancy prose style.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of the father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician; ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an ideaöwhether a good one or a bad one.
Murder doesn't round out anybody's life except the murdered's and sometimes the murderer's.
'But why should you want to shield him?'cried Egbert; 'the man is a common murderer.' 'A common murderer, possibly, but a very uncommon cook.'
: Do not let him touch you! It is not true That drunken men cannot beget, And if he touch he must beget And you must bear his murderer. Deaf! Both deaf!
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