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nouna criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
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- set evil Egyptian god with the head of a beast that has high square ears and a long snout; brother and murderer of Osiris
- 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
- seth evil Egyptian god with the head of a beast that has high square ears and a long snout; brother and murderer of Osiris
- butcher a brutal indiscriminate murderer
- ripper a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife
- murderess a woman murderer
- aegisthus (Greek mythology) the seducer of Clytemnestra and murderer of Agamemnon who usurped the throne of Mycenae until Agamemnon's son Orestes returned home and killed him
- assassinator a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed
- blood money a reward for information about a murderer
- procrustes (Greek mythology) a mythical giant who was a thief and murderer; he would capture people and tie them to an iron bed, stretching them or hacking off their legs to make them fit; was killed by Theseus