countermurder
countermurder noun: a murder in response to another murder.
Noun
countermurder (countable and uncountable, plural countermurders)
- A murder in response to another murder.
- I go out with him on tour in his armored car through Bujumbura's ethnically cleansed neighborhoods to talk to the adolescents with the Kalashnikovs and grenades, who for the price of a few beers will firebomb a street. He gets out and confronts them, telling them that the cycle of murder and...1997, Michael Ignatieff, “The Seductiveness of Moral Disgust”, in The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience, New York NY: Henry Holt and Company, published 1998, →ISBN, page 86
Forms of countermurder
| plural | countermurders |
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Origin of countermurder
From counter- + murder.
Questions about countermurder
- What does countermurder mean?
- Countermurder means a murder in response to another murder.
- What part of speech is countermurder?
- Countermurder is a noun.
- What is the plural of countermurder?
- The plural of countermurder is countermurders.
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