Murderer vs Slaughter - What's the difference?
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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 .
(uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food; ritual slaughter (kosher and halal).
A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
* Milton
A rout or decisive defeat.
To butcher animals, generally for food
To massacre people in large numbers
To kill in a particularly brutal manner
As nouns the difference between murderer and slaughter
is that murderer is a person who commits murder while slaughter is the killing of animals, generally for food; ritual slaughter (kosher and halal).As a verb slaughter is
to butcher animals, generally for food.As a proper noun Slaughter is
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(-)- on war and mutual slaughter bent