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Killer   /kˈɪlər/   Listen
Killer

noun
1.
Someone who causes the death of a person or animal.  Synonym: slayer.
2.
The causal agent resulting in death.  Synonym: cause of death.
3.
A difficulty that is hard to deal with.
4.
Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas.  Synonyms: grampus, killer whale, orca, Orcinus orca, sea wolf.



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"Killer" Quotes from Famous Books



... melancholy on his brow, and a tear, such as mortals shed, appeared in his large dark eyes. "Alas!" said he, "I may not, like thee, rejoice in the cheerful thanks of mankind; they call me upon the earth their enemy, and joy-killer." ...
— The International Weekly Miscellany, Volume I. No. 8 - Of Literature, Art, and Science, August 19, 1850 • Various
... I hold thee reverently. Break off the parley; for scarce I can refrain The execution of my big-swoln heart Upon that Clifford, that cruel child-killer. ...
— King Henry VI, Third Part • William Shakespeare [Rolfe edition]
... fixing our minds in the eaten instead of the eater; dwelling on the loss of the killed, instead of the gain of the killer. ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... of how Kit Carson shot the Indians. Kit Carson was a personal friend of mine, and when I read snatches to him from books making him a "heap big Indian killer," he always grew furious and said it was a "damn lie," that he never had killed an Indian, and if he had, that he could not have made the treaties with them that he had made, and his scalp would have been the forfeit. At one time Kit Carson went on an Indian ...
— The Second William Penn - A true account of incidents that happened along the - old Santa Fe Trail • William H. Ryus
... for me some New York krismus presents. I have sole the pig and I am a-puttin' in this six dollars and sixteen cents, I would have sent seven dollars even but the baby had the colic so bad I had to git some more of that pain-killer which I give the hoss onct, and Johnnie lost the change comin' home from the store. The baby is well, but the hoss ain't. The followin' is what I would like to have. Ifen you can't git the things, git what you can. I have ...
— The Man in Lonely Land • Kate Langley Bosher


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