Murderer vs Murderee - What's the difference?
murderer | murderee |
A person who commits murder.
*1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
*:It was two o'clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty
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*:I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer .
A murder victim.
* 1970 , David Cort, Revolution by Cliché
* 2001 , Jim Crace, Being Dead
As nouns the difference between murderer and murderee
is that murderer is a person who commits murder while murderee is a murder victim.murderer
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(en noun)- ...and so the problem becomes how to salvage the murderer, since the murderee is beyond recall.
- This was the murderee , a rich young man with narrow lips and the tussock hairstyle that had been fashionable five years before.