Synonyms for killers

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kil-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɪl ər

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Origin : late 15c., agent noun from kill (v.). But a surname, Ric[hard] Le Kyller is attested from 1288. Figurative use from 1550s. Meaning "impressive person or thing" is by 1900 (as an adjective, 1979); reduplicated form killer-diller attested by 1938. Killer whale is from 1725; killer instinct is attested from 1931, originally in boxing.

noun murderer

Example sentences :

And why all these endless preparations if these men of Martindale were not killers?
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

Stan looked down upon the killers from his perch in the sky.
Extract from : « A Yankee Flier Over Berlin » by Al Avery

For we are all killers, on land and on sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included.
Extract from : « Moby Dick; or The Whale » by Herman Melville

These attempts to share with the killers of big game are often seen.
Extract from : « Wild Animals at Home » by Ernest Thompson Seton

We will go back to Nature,—though she, too, can suckle "killers."
Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 » by Various

There were four killers present in addition to the 50 irresponsible Kirst.
Extract from : « A Virginia Scout » by Hugh Pendexter

Could your friends, the killers, have sent them away so quickly?
Extract from : « A Virginia Scout » by Hugh Pendexter

One of the three killers stumbled and crashed to the ground.
Extract from : « Space Platform » by Murray Leinster

If nobody but the killers had packed guns they'd have run the whole show.
Extract from : « Desert Conquest » by A. M. Chisholm

If he had—well, most of the men in the outfit were wild and woolly, and rough, but not killers.
Extract from : « The Prairie Schooner » by William Francis Hooker

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