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murderer
[mur-der-er]
Other Word Forms
- self-murderer noun
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
murderers' row,
the row of cells in a prison where murderers and other violent or hard-core criminals are held.
Baseball. a succession of heavy hitters scheduled to bat one after the other.
any group of notorious or important people.
a murderers' row of talent;
a murderers' row of philosophers.
Example Sentences
"She is a murderer but she didn't deserve to be taken from the world in the way that she was," said grandson Stephen Beard.
Italy's Sports Minister Andrea Abodi described the attack as a "shocking assault," carried out by "criminals who have turned into murderers and can never be called fans," he said.
While the 10-hour debate was mostly respectful, some onlookers watching the debate cried out "murderers" after the bill passed.
Two convicted murderers were put to death on Tuesday -- in Florida and Missouri -- and another inmate was executed on Wednesday in Mississippi.
Counter-terror police said the self-styled "militant" online group provided an "echo chamber of extreme right-wing views where they shared horrific racial slurs, glorified mass murderers and encouraged violence against anyone deemed an enemy".
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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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