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butcher
One who slaughters and dresses animals for food or market.
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  1. One who slaughters and dresses animals for food or market.
  2. (Informal, former) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theaters, trains, circuses, etc.
  3. A person whose work is killing animals or dressing their carcasses for meat
cutthroat
A cutthroat trout.
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  1. A cutthroat trout.
  2. A murderer, especially one who cuts throats.
  3. An unprincipled, ruthless person.
homicide
A police division responsible for investigating homicides
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  1. A police division responsible for investigating homicides
  2. The killing of a human being, committed by another. The killing of a human being, committed by another.
  3. The killing of one person by another, regardless of intention or legality.
killer
(Slang) Something that is extremely difficult to deal with or withstand:
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  1. (Slang) Something that is extremely difficult to deal with or withstand:
  2. (Slang) An extremely successful, impressive, exciting, etc. person or thing
  3. Killer whale
manslayer
Someone who commits manslaughter
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  1. Someone who commits manslaughter
  2. One, such as a person or animal, that kills a human.
murderer
One who commits murder.
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  1. One who commits murder.
  2. A person who commits or has committed murder
triggerman
(US slang) A hired gunman; a bodyguard.
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  1. (US slang) A hired gunman; a bodyguard.
  2. That person, among those committing a crime, who shoots the victim
  3. A gunman, especially one who shoots someone.
Find another word for murderess. In this page you can discover 11 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for murderess, like: butcher, cutthroat, homicide, killer, manslayer, massacrer, murderer, slaughterer, slayer, triggerman and help.

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  • Or is it really Elizabeth, a convicted former murderess?

  • She was brought back to England and imprisoned alongside the celebrated Victorian murderess, Florence Maybrick.

  • Her mysterious witchery disguises the real Lady Audley, a bigamist and would-be murderess.

  • Jones was justly awarded a best supporting actress Oscar for her performance as the double murderess Velma Kelly.

  • Mary took leave of her first and last master with passionate anguish and many parting kisses; but in face of his enemies, and in hearing of the cries which burst from the ranks, demanding her death by fire as a murderess and harlot, the whole heroic and passionate spirit of the woman, represented by her admirers as a spiritless imbecile, flamed out in responsive threats to have all the men hanged and crucified, in whose power she now stood helpless and alone.

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