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murderee

noun

Etymology

From murder + -ee.

  1. derived from *mer-✻
  2. derived from *mr̥tro-✻ — “killing”
  3. inherited from *murþrą✻ — “death, killing, murder”
  4. inherited from *morþr✻
  5. inherited from morþor — “secret slaying, unlawful killing”
  6. inherited from murder
  7. suffixed as murderee — “murder + ee”

Definitions

  1. A murder victim.

    • ...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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA