Another word for killer
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Noun
One who murders another
- A woman who commits or has committed murder
- One who commits murder.
- A person who commits or has committed murder
- Someone who commits manslaughter
- One, such as a person or animal, that kills a human.
- A police division responsible for investigating homicides
- The killing of one person by another, regardless of intention or legality.
- A cutthroat trout.
- A murderer, especially one who cuts throats.
- An unprincipled, ruthless person.
- One who slaughters and dresses animals for food or market.
- (Informal, former) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theaters, trains, circuses, etc.
- A person whose work is killing animals or dressing their carcasses for meat
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Another word for killer
Noun
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- One assigned to carry out a ruthless task or a vicious or unscrupulous order.
- A man hired to commit murder.
- A person hired to commit murder
- An expert contracted to solve a specific and often difficult or unpleasant problem
- One with special knowledge or expertise, as in business, law, or government, who is hired to resolve particularly difficult or complex problems.
- A person hired to kill or defend someone
- The act or an instance of intentionally killing oneself.
- The destruction or ruin of one's own interests:
- A person who dies by suicide.
- The killing of a king.
- One who kills a king.
- The killing of a monarch
- The act of killing one's own brother or sister
- One who has killed one's brother or sister.
- A person who kills his or her own brother or sister
- The killing of one's father, mother, or other near relative.
- The act of murdering one's parent, someone having a similar relationship, or a close relative
- A person who does this
- One who kills one's mother.
- The act of killing one's mother.
- A person who does this
- One who murders one's father.
- The act of murdering one's father.
- A person who does this
- A police division responsible for investigating homicides
- The killing of one person by another, regardless of intention or legality.
- One that exterminates, especially one whose occupation is the extermination of vermin.
- A person or thing that exterminates
- A person whose work or business is exterminating rats, cockroaches, and other vermin
- One who lynches.
- A thug or gangster.
- A brutal, violent, lawless person; tough or hoodlum
- A cutthroat trout.
- A murderer, especially one who cuts throats.
- An unprincipled, ruthless person.
- Alternative spelling of axeman.
- (Slang) One assigned to perform a task involving ruthless reduction, as of a work force or budget.
- An executioner who beheads those condemned to die
- An executioner, especially one who executes by beheading.
- A skilled military shooter detailed to spot and pick off enemy soldiers from a concealed place.
- One who shoots at other people from a concealed place.
- A person, esp. a soldier, who snipes
- Someone who commits manslaughter
- One, such as a person or animal, that kills a human.
- (Informal) A man paid to kill someone; hired murderer
- An executioner who hangs criminals condemned to death
- A man employed to execute condemned prisoners by hanging.
- A game in which one player chooses a word whose letters are guessed at by another player. For each wrong guess, a new part of the stick figure of a hanging man is drawn.
- One who executes a condemned person.
- A person who carries out the death penalty as imposed by a court
- One who bungles something.
- A person whose work is killing animals or dressing their carcasses for meat
- (Informal, former) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theaters, trains, circuses, etc.
- A person who poisons something or someone.
- An epiphyte whose aerial roots eventually strangle the tree on which it grows
- Someone who strangles, especially who murders by strangling
- (Slang) A shot of whiskey or other liquor
- A person or thing that shoots
- A member of an organized group of criminals; a racketeer.
- A man skilled in the use of a gun.
- A man armed with a gun, especially an armed criminal or a professional killer.
- A murderer who strikes suddenly and by surprise
- One who murders by surprise attack, especially one who carries out a plot to kill a prominent person.
- A person who harms or ruins someone's reputation, as by slander, vilification, etc.
- One who commits murder.
- A person who commits or has committed murder
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