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单词 murderer
释义
murderermur‧der‧er /ˈmɜːdərə $ ˈmɜːrdərər/ ●●○ noun [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • A convicted murderer was on the run last night after escaping from Lewes prison.
  • a convicted murderer
  • Do you think the police will ever catch her murderer?
  • In prison he enjoyed reading biographies of other mass murderers.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Her two sons sought retribution for their father, but Rita would rather her sons died than become murderers.
  • Might not a murderer, she wondered, erase the memory of the deed?
  • Or put them in jail with murderers and hooligans all in the name of Karl Marx and Lenin.
  • She did not like what she had been, murdered or murderer, victim or vampire.
  • That year, Esquire magazine sent contributing editor Philip Caputo to Stockton to discover what might have motivated the mass murderer.
  • The announcement shocked the nation, and many people hoped the murderers would be brought to justice.
  • The Moors murderer Ian Brady, 62, has been denied the right to starve himself to death.
  • What is there about a murderer that can make him so irresistible?
Thesaurus
THESAURUSdifferent types of criminal
someone who steals things: · Car thieves have been working in the area.· The thieves stole over £5,000 worth of jewellery.
someone who steals money or valuable things from a bank, shop etc – used especially when someone sees the person who is stealing: · a masked robber armed with a shotgun· They were the most successful bank robbers in US history.
someone who goes into people’s homes in order to steal: · The burglars broke in through a window.
someone who takes things from shops without paying for them: · The cameras have helped the store catch several shoplifters.
someone who steals things from people’s pockets, especially in a crowd: · A sign warned that pickpockets were active in the station.
someone who deceives people in order to get money or things: · Conmen tricked the woman into giving them her savings, as an ‘investment’.
someone who illegally copies official documents, money, artworks etc: · a forger who fooled museum curators
someone who illegally copies money, official documents, or goods: · Counterfeiters in Colombia are printing almost perfect dollar bills.
someone who illegally copies and sells another person’s work: · DVD pirates
someone who attacks and robs people in public places: · Muggers took his money and mobile phone.
someone who deliberately kills someone else: · His murderer was sentenced to life imprisonment.· the murderer of civil rights activist Medgar Evers· He is a mass murderer (=someone who kills a large number of people).
someone who kills several people, one after the other over a period of time, in a similar way: · Shipman was a trusted family doctor who became Britain's worst serial killer.
someone who forces someone else to have sex: · Some rapists drug their victims so that they become unconscious.
someone who is guilty of a crime related to sex: · Too many sex offenders are released from prison early.
someone who deliberately damages public property: · Vandals broke most of the school’s windows.
someone who deliberately sets fire to a building: · The warehouse fire may have been the work of an arsonist.
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who kills another person
someone who has deliberately killed another person: · Do you think the police will ever catch her murderer?· A convicted murderer was on the run last night after escaping from Lewes prison.mass murderer (=someone who has murdered a lot of people): · In prison he enjoyed reading biographies of other mass murderers.
someone who deliberately kills someone else - used especially in newspapers: · The victim's best friend, Joanne, is convinced the killer is local.· The judge described him as "a cold-blooded killer".killer of: · Police are searching for the killer of a 9 year old boy.serial killer (=someone who has killed a number of people, one after the other): · Dr Shipman is the biggest serial killer of all time.
someone who kills a famous or important person, sometimes because someone else has paid them to do it: · Although the assassins were never caught, it is commonly believed that they were working for the government.· His assassins must have been aware of his security arrangements.
someone who is paid to kill people illegally: · The hitman used the top floor room of a hotel opposite the square.· The police believe the murder could be the work of a contract killer.
also psycho informal someone who has a mental illness that makes them kill people: · Dr Green said that, in his opinion, Perry was a dangerous psychopath who might kill again.
WORD SETS
abet, verbaccusation, nounaccuse, verbaffray, nounarson, nounassault, nounassault and battery, nounbackhander, nounbattery, nounbigamy, nounblack market, nounblack marketeer, nounbreak-in, nounbreaking and entering, nouncaper, nouncapital, adjectivecarjacking, nouncat burglar, nouncontract, nouncosh, nouncounterfeit, adjectivecounterfeit, verbcover, nouncrack, verbcriminal, adjectivecriminal, nouncriminal law, nouncriminal record, nouncriminology, nouncrook, nounculpable, adjectiveculprit, noundefamation, noundefraud, verbdelinquency, noundelinquent, adjectivedelinquent, noundesperado, noundisorderly, adjectivedrug baron, noundrug runner, nounDUI, nounembezzle, verbexpropriate, verbextort, verbeyewitness, nounfelon, nounfelony, nounfence, nounfiddle, nounfiddle, verbfiddler, nounfilch, verbfinger, verbfire-raising, nounfirst offender, nounflash, verbflasher, nounforge, verbforger, nounforgery, nounfoul play, nounframe, verbframe-up, nounfratricide, nounfraud, nounfreebooter, noungang, noungang-bang, noungang rape, noungangster, nounGBH, noungenocide, noungetaway, noungodfather, noungrand larceny, noungrass, noungrievous bodily harm, nounheist, nounhijack, verbhijack, nounhijacking, nounhit, nounhit-and-run, adjectivehit man, nounincriminate, verbindecent assault, nounindecent exposure, nouninfanticide, nounjob, nounjoyriding, nounjuvenile delinquent, nounkidnap, verblarceny, nounlibel, nounlibel, verblibellous, adjectivelow life, nounmafioso, nounmalpractice, nounmanslaughter, nounmassacre, nounmassacre, verbmatricide, nounmisappropriate, verbmisconduct, nounmisdeed, nounmisdemeanour, nounmobster, nounmoll, nounmug, verbmugshot, nounmurder, nounmurder, verbmurderer, nounmurderess, nounmuscleman, nounnark, nounnefarious, adjectiveneighbourhood watch, nounnick, verbno-go area, nounoffence, nounoffend, verboffender, nounold lag, nounorganized crime, nounoutlaw, nounparricide, nounpatricide, nounpetty larceny, nounPhotofit, nounpiracy, nounplant, verbpoach, verbpoacher, nounpossession, nounprivateer, nounprotection, nounprowl, verbprowler, nounpublic nuisance, nounpull, verbpunk, nounpurloin, verbraid, nounram-raiding, nounrape, verbrape, nounrapist, nounravish, verbreceiver, nounreceiving, nounrecidivist, nounregicide, nounring, nounringleader, nounriotous, adjectiverob, verbrobber, nounrobbery, nounroll, verbrustler, nounscheme, nounscheme, verbshady, adjectiveshoplift, verbshoplifting, nounslander, nounsmuggle, verbsnout, nounspeeding, nounstabbing, nounstalking, nounstatutory offence, nounstatutory rape, nounsteal, verbstoolpigeon, nounsupergrass, nounsuspect, nounswag, nountheft, nounthief, nounthievish, adjectivetorch, verbtraffic, nountrafficker, nountriad, noununder-the-counter, adjectiveunderworld, nounundesirable, nounvagrancy, nounvandal, nounvandalism, nounvandalize, verbvice, nounvigilante, nounvillainy, nounviolate, verbviolation, nounwanted, adjective
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Many a convicted murderer had displayed that sort of control.
· But at this moment Kate could not have cared less if he was a mass murderer.· That year, Esquire magazine sent contributing editor Philip Caputo to Stockton to discover what might have motivated the mass murderer.· The art of a mass murderer.· I was sitting with my feet up, watching a film about a puerto Rican mass murderer.· The puerto Rican mass murderer was letting off a pump-action shotgun into a bus queue in downtown Los Angeles.· Especially when I am watching puerto Rican mass murderers.· Just one of those casual I-can-do-anything-I-want-any-time-I-want-and-make-you-like-it gestures so beloved of megalomaniacs, mass murderers and the Gunmint.· The families of mass murderer Allitt's victims are also demanding that any inquiry be held in public.
· One was about a Machine hit man who emerges from early retirement when his wife is slain by a serial murderer.· But I never thought he was a serial murderer.
VERB
· Her two sons sought retribution for their father, but Rlta would rather her sons died than become murderers.
· He attempted to bring Nahaman's murderers to justice.· It's his job to bring the murderer of the old money-lender and her sister to justice.· Now Benjamin had unmasked many a killer and brought numerous murderers to boot.
· They hope that today's announcement of a £650 reward will bring them closer to catching the murderer.· Dalziel had caught her murderer 19 years before.· Now detectives can only hope that publicity surrounding the funeral will encourage some one to come forward and help them catch the murderer.· No, I want to plot and catch an evil murderer.
· The immorality of capital punishment does not lie in the sympathy level of a particular convicted murderer.· It is time to indict, try and convict the murderers of Feb. 24.· Sometimes, regrettably, though the idea may make us cringe, that voice may be that of a convicted murderer.· That certainly is the case in Harris County, which sentences more convicted murderers to death than any other county.· Another pro bono endeavor involves representing a convicted murderer from Indiana.· President Truman ordered Clark to take every action to apprehend and convict the murderers.
· But, despite the new medical findings, police appear to be no closer to finding the murderer.· Then they told me that the police had found the murderer.· On the left, the problem of solving the King's death, of finding the murderer.· She was being paid to find this murderer, and find him she would!· Confusing stories are circulating along with rumours and half-truths as people, in their desperation, try to help find the murderers.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • Ex-Ornette Coleman sideman Ronald Shannon Jackson was on drums, occasionally adding creepy blues vocals worthy of a serial killer.
  • Read the February issue of eve to find out, and discuss whether serial killers are born that way below.
  • She enlists the help of psychiatrist / author Sigourney Weaver, an expert on serial killers.
  • She escapes and later discovers that her attacker is a suspected serial killer.
  • She is a serial killer who picks up men in the Métro.
  • There are a lot of courtroom drama books and serial killer tales about, but this one is special.
► would-be actor/murderer etc
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounmurdermurdereradjectivemurderousverbmurderadverbmurderously
 someone who murders another person:  a convicted murderer his brother’s murderer
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