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SLAYER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who causes the death of a person or animal
Synonyms:
killer; slayer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("slayer" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slayer"):
executioner; public executioner (an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant)
eradicator; exterminator; terminator (someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects))
choker; garroter; garrotter; strangler; throttler (someone who kills by strangling)
liquidator; manslayer; murderer (a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being))
poisoner (someone who kills with poison)
regicide (someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king)
felo-de-se; suicide (a person who kills himself intentionally)
Derivation:
slay (kill intentionally and with premeditation)
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