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1) Общая лексика: убийца, душегуб
2) Устаревшее слово: убивец
3) Юридический термин: лицо, совершившее тяжкое убийство, субъект тяжкого убийства
4) юр.Н.П. душегубей
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murderer — mur·der·er / mər dər ər/ n: a person who commits murder Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. murderer … Law dictionary
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murderer — (n.) mid 14c., alteration of murtherer (c.1300), agent noun from MURDER (Cf. murder) (v.); in part from O.Fr. mordrere, from M.L. murdrarius, from Germanic. Old English words for this included morðorcwalu, morðorslaga, morðorwyrhta, lit. murder… … Etymology dictionary
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Murderer — Mur der*er (m[^u]r d[ e]r*[ e]r), n. 1. One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice. [1913 Webster] 2. A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship s decks of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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murderer — [n] person who kills assassin, butcher, criminal, cutthroat, enforcer, executioner, hit and run*, hit person*, homicide, killer, manslaughterer, perpetrator, slaughterer, slayer, soldier, trigger person*; concept 412 … New thesaurus
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murderer — [mur′dər ər] n. a person who commits or has committed murder … English World dictionary
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murderer — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ accused (esp. BrE), alleged, suspected ▪ convicted ▪ potential, would be ▪ Does the death penalty deter would be murderers? … Collocations dictionary
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murderer — [[t]mɜ͟ː(r)dərə(r)[/t]] murderers N COUNT A murderer is a person who has murdered someone. One of these men may have been the murderer. …a notorious mass murderer … English dictionary
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murderer */ — UK [ˈmɜː(r)dərə(r)] / US [ˈmɜrdərər] noun [countable] Word forms murderer : singular murderer plural murderers someone who commits murder a mass murderer (= someone who has killed several people) … English dictionary
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murderer — n. a mass; serial murderer * * * serial murderer a mass … Combinatory dictionary
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murderer — mur|der|er [ˈmə:dərə US ˈmə:rdərər] n someone who murders another person ▪ a convicted murderer ▪ his brother s murderer … Dictionary of contemporary English
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murderer — noun a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) (Freq. 12) • Syn: ↑liquidator, ↑manslayer • Derivationally related forms: ↑liquidate (for: ↑liquidator), ↑ … Useful english dictionary
The murderer’s identity remains unknown. 
Личность убийцы остаётся неизвестной.
Dracula, immortal murderer
Дракула, бессмертный убийца
They watched as the murderer was executed.
Они смотрели, как казнили убийцу.
The murderer is present in this room.
Убийца присутствует в этой комнате.
The murderer dumped the body in the river.
Убийца выбросил тело в реку.
The murderer was hanged on Friday.
Убийца был повешен в пятницу.
The murderer was found to be criminally insane.
Убийца был признан невменяемым с точки зрения уголовного права.
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murder — убийство, душегубство, убивать, коверкать, совершать убийство
murdered — убитый, убитый
Other forms: murderers
If you’re looking for a roommate and someone writes murderer under “occupation,” you should definitely keep looking. A murderer is a person who kills deliberately and without justification.
In some instances, killing a person is considered a just or valid action — in a war, a soldier who kills another soldier is not considered to be a murderer, and people who kill in self-defense, to save themselves, are also not murderers. Killing out of anger or for money or revenge is murder, and anyone who does it is a murderer. Charles Manson is in jail for being a murderer. The Old English root of murderer is morðor, «unlawful killing.»
Definitions of murderer
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noun
a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
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synonyms:
liquidator, manslayer
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Jack the Ripper
an unidentified English murderer in the 19th century
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John Wilkes Booth
United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865)
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Lee Harvey Oswald
United States assassin of President John F. Kennedy (1939-1963)
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assassin, assassinator, bravo
a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed
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butcher
a brutal indiscriminate murderer
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cutthroat
someone who murders by cutting the victim’s throat
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fratricide
a person who murders their brother or sister
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gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman
a professional killer who uses a gun
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hatchet man, iceman
a professional killer
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infanticide
a person who murders an infant
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mass murderer
a person who is responsible for the deaths of many victims in a single incident
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murderess
a woman murderer
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parricide
someone who kills his or her parent
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ripper
a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife
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serial killer, serial murderer
someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval
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matricide
a person who murders their mother
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patricide
a person who murders their father
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spree killer
a serial killer whose murders occur within a brief period of time
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type of:
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criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw
someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
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killer, slayer
someone who causes the death of a person or animal
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Jack the Ripper
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: one who murders
especially
: one who commits the crime of murder
Synonyms
Example Sentences
the murderer was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole
Recent Examples on the Web
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—Rebekah Riess, CNN, 27 Jan. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined above
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“Murderer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/murderer. Accessed 14 Apr. 2023.
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- Afrikaans: moordenaar
- Alabama: aatiibi
- Albanian: vrasës (sq) m, vrasëse (sq) f
- Arabic: قَاتِل (ar) m (qātil), قَاتِلَة f (qātila)
- Armenian: մարդասպան (hy) (mardaspan)
- Asturian: asesín m
- Azerbaijani: qatil (az)
- Bashkir: ҡатил (qatil)
- Belarusian: забо́йца (be) m or f (zabójca)
- Bengali: খুনী (bn) (khuni), কাতেল (qatel)
- Breton: lazher (br) m
- Bulgarian: уби́ец (bg) m (ubíec), уби́йца f (ubíjca)
- Burmese: လူသတ်သမား (lusatsa.ma:)
- Catalan: assassí (ca) m, assassina (ca) f
- Cherokee: ᎠᏓᎯᎯ (adahihi)
- Chickasaw: hattak-abi’
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 兇手／凶手 (hung1 sau2), 殺人犯／杀人犯 (saat3 jan4 faan6-2), 殺手／杀手 (saat3 sau2)
- Mandarin: 兇手／凶手 (zh) (xiōngshǒu), 殺人犯／杀人犯 (zh) (shārénfàn), 殺手／杀手 (zh) (shāshǒu)
- Min Nan: 殺手／杀手 (zh-min-nan) (sat-chhiú)
- Choctaw: abi
- Crimean Tatar: qatil
- Czech: vrah (cs) m, vražedkyně (cs) f
- Danish: morder (da) c, morderske c (female)
- Dutch: moordenaar (nl) m, moordenaarster f, moordenares (nl) f
- Esperanto: murdinto, murdintino (female)
- Estonian: mõrtsukas
- Finnish: murhaaja (fi)
- French: meurtrier (fr) m, meurtrière (fr) f, assassin (fr) m, assassine (fr) f
- Old French: murtrier m
- Galician: asasino (gl) m, asasina f
- Georgian: მკვლელი (mḳvleli)
- German: Mörder (de) m, Mörderin (de) f
- Greek: δολοφόνος (el) m or f (dolofónos), δολοφόνισσα (el) f (dolofónissa), φονιάς (el) m (foniás), φόνισσα (el) f (fónissa)
- Ancient: φονεύς m (phoneús), φονεύτρια f (phoneútria)
- Gujarati: હત્યારો (hatyāro)
- Hebrew: רוצח רוֹצֵחַ (he) m (rotséakh), רוצחת רוֹצַחַת f (rotsákhat)
- Hindi: हत्यारा (hi) m (hatyārā), ख़ूनी m (xūnī), क़ातिल m (qātil)
- Hungarian: gyilkos (hu)
- Icelandic: morðingi m
- Indonesian: pembunuh (id)
- Italian: assassino (it) m, assassina (it) f
- Japanese: 人殺し (ja) (ひとごろし, hitogoroshi), 殺人者 (さつじんしゃ, satsujinsha)
- Kalmyk: алач (alach)
- Kannada: ಕೊಲೆಗಾರ (kn) (kolegāra)
- Kazakh: қанішер (qanışer), қаныпезер (qanypezer)
- Khmer: ឃាតករ (khiət kɑɑ), អ្នកសម្លាប់ (nĕək sɑmlap)
- Korean: 살인자(殺人者) (ko) (sarinja)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: qatil (ku) m, mêrkuj (ku) m, kujer (ku) m
- Kyrgyz: өлтүргүч (ky) (öltürgüç), өлтүрүүчү (ky) (öltürüüçü)
- Lao: ຄາດຕະກອນ (khāt ta kǭn)
- Latgalian: slapkauņs m
- Latin: homicīda m or f, occīsor m, occītrīx f, interfector m, interfectrīx f
- Latvian: slepkava m or f
- Lithuanian: žmogžudys m, žmogžudė f
- Luxembourgish: Mäerder m, Mäerderin f
- Macedonian: убиец m (ubiec), катиљ m (katilj) (colloquial)
- Malay: pembunuh (ms)
- Malayalam: കൊലപാതകി (ml) (kolapātaki)
- Maori: kaikōhuru
- Mongolian: алуурчин (mn) (aluurčin)
- Norman: meurtriyi m
- Northern Sami: olmmošgoddi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: morder m, morderske m or f (female), drapsperson m, drapsmann m, drapskvinne m or f (female)
- Nynorsk: mordar m, morderske f, drapsperson m, drapsmann m, drapskvinne f
- Old East Slavic: головьникъ m (golovĭnikŭ)
- Old English: manslaga m, slaga m
- Old Norse: morðari m
- Old Polish: głównik
- Pashto: قاتل (ps) m (qātél), خوني (ps) m or f (xuní)
- Persian: قاتل (fa) (qâtel), آدمکش (fa) (âdamkoš)
- Plautdietsch: Merda m
- Polish: morderca (pl) m, morderczyni (pl) f, zabójca (pl) m, zabójczyni (pl) f
- Portuguese: assassino (pt) m, assassina (pt) f, homicida (pt) m or f
- Romanian: criminal (ro) m (false friend), criminală (ro) f
- Russian: уби́йца (ru) m or f (ubíjca), ки́ллер (ru) m (kíller) (hired), душегу́б (ru) m (dušegúb) (colloquial)
- Sanskrit: घातक (sa) m (ghātaka), ताडक (sa) m (tāḍaka)
- Scottish Gaelic: murtair m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: у̀бица m (Bosnian, Serbian), у̀бојица m (Croatian)
- Roman: ùbica (sh) m (Bosnian, Serbian), ùbojica (sh) m (Croatian)
- Sinhalese: මිනීමරුවා (minīmaruwā)
- Slovak: vrah (sk) m, vrahyňa (sk) f
- Slovene: morilec (sl) m, morilka f
- Spanish: asesino (es) m, asesina (es) f, victimario m, victimaria f, matador (es) m, matadora (es) f
- Swahili: mwuaji class 1/2
- Swedish: mördare (sv) c, mörderska (sv) c (female)
- Tajik: қотил (qotil), кушанда (kušanda), одамкуш (odamkuš)
- Tamil: கொலைகாரன் (ta) (kolaikāraṉ)
- Tatar: үтерүче (tt) (üterüçe), катыйль (tt) (qatıyl’)
- Telugu: హంతకుడు (te) (hantakuḍu)
- Thai: ฆาตกร (th) (kâat-dtà-gɔɔn)
- Tocharian B: kauṣenta
- Turkish: katil (tr)
- Turkmen: ganhor
- Ukrainian: вби́вця m or f (vbývcja), уби́вця (uk) m or f (ubývcja), душогу́б m (dušohúb) (colloquial)
- Urdu: قاتل m (qātil), خونی m (xūnī)
- Uyghur: قاتىل (qatil), شۇمبەن (shumben)
- Uzbek: qotil (uz), odamkush (uz)
- Vietnamese: kẻ giết người
- Wiradhuri: baluubuunildaayn
- Yakut: өлөрүөхсүт (ölörüöqsüt)
- Yiddish: מערדער m (merder), רוצח m (rotseyekh), טויטשלאַגער m (toytshlager)
- Zulu: umbulali