murderer

murderer
n
1. killer, slayer, manslayer, man-killer, cutthroat, thug, poisoner, strangler, impaler; assassin, liquidator, bravo, sniper, gunman, knifer, Euph. silencer, Euph. dispatcher; All Sl. gun, hired gun, hit man, triggerman, torpedo, hatchet man; executioner, excutionist, Sl.Jack Ketch, decapitator, headsman, beheader, lyncher, hangman, garotter, burker, burkist; butcher, slaughterer, Bluebeard, ripper, mass-killer, mass-slayer, exterminator, annihilator, destroyer; bloodspiller, bloodshedder, bloodletter.
2. homicide, patricide, matricide, paricide, fratricide, sororicide, uxoricide, infanticide, regicide, tyrannicide, vaticide.

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