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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:

Nouns denoting people

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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