MURDERER Synonyms
7 hypernyms for murderer. (close relations)
Best Synonyms for MURDERER
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| assailant | noun n | |||||
noun • someone who attacks | ||||||
| assassin | noun n | |||||
noun • a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed • a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders | ||||||
| butcher | verb, noun v, n | |||||
noun • a retailer of meat • a brutal indiscriminate murderer • a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market • someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence verb • kill (animals) usually for food consumption | ||||||
| criminal | noun n | |||||
noun • someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime adjective satellite • bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure • guilty of crime or serious offense • involving or being or having the nature of a crime | ||||||
| executioner | noun n | |||||
noun • an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant | ||||||
| hitman | noun n | |||||
noun • a professional killer who uses a gun | ||||||
| homicide | noun n | |||||
noun • the killing of a human being by another human being | ||||||
| killer | noun n | |||||
noun • someone who causes the death of a person or animal • the causal agent resulting in death • a difficulty that is hard to deal with • predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas | ||||||
| maniac | noun, adjective n, adj | |||||
noun • an insane person • a person who has an obsession with or excessive enthusiasm for something adjective satellite • wildly disordered | ||||||
| perpetrator | noun n | |||||
noun • someone who perpetrates wrongdoing | ||||||
| psychopath | noun n | |||||
noun • someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath') | ||||||
| slaughterer | noun n | |||||
noun • a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | ||||||
| slayer | noun n | |||||
noun • someone who causes the death of a person or animal | ||||||
| strangler | noun n | |||||
noun • an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree • someone who kills by strangling | ||||||
| villain | noun n | |||||
noun • a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately • the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction | ||||||
| serial killer | noun n | |||||
noun • someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval | ||||||
| liquidator | noun n | |||||
noun • a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) • (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties | ||||||
| manslayer | noun n | |||||
noun • a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) | ||||||