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murderer
[ mur-der-er ]
Other Word Forms
- -ܰd· noun
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- murderers' row,
- the row of cells in a prison where murderers and other violent or hard-core criminals are held. death row.
- Baseball. a succession of heavy hitters scheduled to bat one after the other.
- any group of notorious or important people:
a murderers' row of talent;
a murderers' row of philosophers.
Example Sentences
A convicted murderer who went on the run from an open prison in Dundee has been found in Edinburgh.
Thompson and Venables were found guilty of killing James, making them the youngest convicted murderers in modern British history.
A convicted murderer has been reported missing from an open prison near the Scottish city of Dundee.
Harry is pleased Bird is dead, relieved he will never get a phone call saying his attempted murderer and the killer of so many others could be released from prison.
Instead, he only did what any of us would do if we’d been tricked into handing over a loved one to their murderers.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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