mass murderer
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- noun
- /mæs ˈmɜrdərər/
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- The capture of renegade police officer and mass murderer Ben Richards was filmed yesterday by runway security cameras.
- killers and mass murderers
- mass murderer who killed
- become a mass murderer
We're not saying we'll help you because he's a mass murderer.
- We're not saying we'll help you because he's a mass murderer.
- They knew that Idi Amin was a ghoul and a mass murderer, and he proposes the resolution.
- They're the best mass murderers out there for sure.
- He came and he spoke and what I loved, and this was maybe a week after the mass murderers in Orlando.
- I'll be the greatest mass murderer in history, greater than Hitler, or say who, or Horace Glennon Heights.
Examples
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So going back to the Atlanta shootings, the perpetrator, the mass murderer, ended up being a white male.
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I was less than ten steps away from the cabin walls, and probably the mass murderer who was terrifying the West Coast.
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How could this old man, who was sitting peacefully among us, have been a mass murderer?
Academic text (1999) -
Mr Grimes, to the majority of our viewers... you are known as a mass murderer.
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Pol Pot, the notorious mass murderer, has a wiki feed page.
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They knew that Idi Amin was a ghoul and a mass murderer, and he proposes the resolution.
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The police arrested a man believed to be the mass murderer responsible for the recent attack.
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Investigators studied the motivations of the mass murderer to understand the underlying causes of the violence.
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The community held a vigil to remember the victims of the mass murderer who terrorized the town.
Synonyms
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A person who kills people in a cruel way
A person who kills many people or animals in a violent way
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'mass' (a large group) modifies 'murderer' (someone who kills), yielding a person who kills many people in one event. This follows normal English compounding and has clear equivalents in other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun mass murderer is a plain, literal phrase. Mass means a large number of people and murderer means someone who kills, so it means 'a person who kills many people in a single event'.