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murd'rer

murd'rer is the contraction of murderer.

Meaning of murderer

Noun

murderer (plural murderers)

  1. A person who commits murder.
    • Neither does a great nation […] debate, with drivelling tears, and diabolical sympathies, whether it ought not piously to save, and nursingly cherish, the lives of its murderers.

Forms of murd'rer

pluralmurd'rers

Questions about murd'rer

What is murd'rer the contraction of?
Murd'rer is the contraction of murderer.

Words near murd'rer in the dictionary

  1. murciana
  2. murcianas
  3. Murcians
  4. murcott
  5. murcotts
  6. murd'rer
  7. murd'rers
  8. murdabad
  9. murdah
  10. Murdaugh
  11. Murdaughs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: murd'rer (page history and authors); murderer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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