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单词 murderee
释义

murdereen.

Brit. /ˌməːdəˈriː/, U.S. /ˌmərdəˈri/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: murder v., -ee suffix1.
Etymology: < murder v. + -ee suffix1.
A person who is murdered; a murder victim.
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1846 H. Smith Poet. Wks. II. 208 Thus sat we grim and silent, cold and raw, Two destined murderers and one murderee.
1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love ii. 32 It takes two people to make a murder: a murderer and a murderee. And a murderee is a man who is murderable.
1925 New Yorker 28 Mar. 13/2 Some day, somebody is going to write a mystery story in which the murderee will be a swell guy.
1939 A. Huxley After Many a Summer 20 You're probably the sort of person that invites persecution. A bit of a murderee..as well as a scholar and a gentleman.
1958 S. Hyland Who goes Hang? xii. 59 I don't know who the murdered man, the ‘murderee’, was.
1970 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Aug. 883/1 This one hinges on the killing of one of those fiendishly attractive girls who, fictionally at least, are so often murderees.
1990 M. Wesley Sensible Life (BNC) 166 Unwilling to invite for herself in games of Murder the role of murderee.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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