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countermurders

countermurders is the plural of countermurder.

Meaning of countermurder

Noun

countermurder (countable and uncountable, plural countermurders)

  1. 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

Questions about countermurders

What is countermurders the plural of?
Countermurders is the plural of countermurder.

Words near countermurders in the dictionary

  1. countermovement
  2. countermovements
  3. countermoves
  4. countermoving
  5. countermurder
  6. countermurders
  7. countermure
  8. countermured
  9. countermures
  10. countermuring
  11. countermutinies

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