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murderer

[ mur-der-er ]

noun

  1. a person who commits murder.


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Other Word Forms

  • -ܰd· noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of murderer1

1300–50; Middle English mortherer, mord ( e ) rer; murder, -er 1
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. murderers' row,
    1. the row of cells in a prison where murderers and other violent or hard-core criminals are held. death row.
    2. Baseball. a succession of heavy hitters scheduled to bat one after the other.
    3. any group of notorious or important people:

      a murderers' row of talent;

      a murderers' row of philosophers.

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A convicted murderer who went on the run from an open prison in Dundee has been found in Edinburgh.

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Thompson and Venables were found guilty of killing James, making them the youngest convicted murderers in modern British history.

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A convicted murderer has been reported missing from an open prison near the Scottish city of Dundee.

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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.

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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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