SERIAL MURDERER Synonyms
3 hypernyms for serial murderer. (close relations)
Best Synonyms for SERIAL MURDERER
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| 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 | ||||||
| destroyer | noun n | |||||
noun • a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship • a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | ||||||
| executioner | noun n | |||||
noun • an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant | ||||||
| exterminator | noun n | |||||
noun • someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects) | ||||||
| fiend | noun n | |||||
noun • a cruel wicked and inhuman person • an evil supernatural being • a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause) | ||||||
| gunman | noun n | |||||
noun • a professional killer who uses a gun • a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| man-eater | noun, adjective n, adj | |||||
noun • a person who eats human flesh • large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| 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personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath') | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| terminate | verb v | |||||
verb • bring to an end or halt • have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical • be the end of; be the last or concluding part of • terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | ||||||
| mass murderer | noun, adjective n, adj | |||||
noun • a person who is responsible for the deaths of many victims in a single incident | ||||||
| serial killer | noun n | |||||
noun • someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval | ||||||