MURDERER Synonyms

• 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

• a retailer of meat

• a brutal indiscriminate murderer

• a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market

• someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

• kill (animals) usually for food consumption

• someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

• bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure

• guilty of crime or serious offense

• involving or being or having the nature of a crime

• an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant

• a professional killer who uses a gun

• the killing of a human being by another human being

• 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

• an insane person

• a person who has an obsession with or excessive enthusiasm for something

• wildly disordered

• someone who perpetrates wrongdoing

• someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath')

• a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market

• someone who causes the death of a person or animal

• 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

• a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately

• the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction

• someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval

• 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

• a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)