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What is the adjective for murdering?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb murder which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

murderous
  1. Intending, or likely to commit murder; bloodthirsty or homicidal.
  2. Very difficult.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. deadly, vicious, cruel, savage, fatal, lethal, bloodthirsty, brutal, mortal, ferocious, destructive, fierce, baleful, deathly, homicidal, barbarous, terminal, bloody, fell, inhuman, sanguinary, barbaric, killer, dangerous, violent, pestilent, sanguine, devastating, murdering, killing, sanguineous, vital, ruinous, internecine, destroying, criminal, cut-throat, death-dealing, bloody-minded, ruthless, merciless, heartless, sadistic, brutish, wicked, malignant, inhumane, monstrous, pitiless, fiendish … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “He was capable of murderous cruelty when angered.”
      “In Buna, which was a center of factory-building activity, we were assigned the murderous task of loading coal.”
      “Now, instead of fighting in the murderous heat of summer, they fought in murderous cold.”
murdery
  1. (informal) Committing, disposed to, or characteristic of murder.
  2. Examples:
      3. “So he gets a little murdery to speed up the inheritance process.”
murderable
  1. Capable of, or suitable for, being murdered.
murderless
  1. that has no murders
murdersome
  1. (dated) murderous
murdered
  1. simple past tense and past participle of murder
  2. Synonyms:
      3. killed, assassinated, dispatched, massacred, slaughtered, eliminated, executed, butchered, liquidated, hit, hat, hitten, neutralised, neutralized, slew, slayed, slain, wasted, did in, done in, offed, terminated, croaked, iced, destroyed, stiffed, topped, whacked, got, gat, gotten, smoked, snuffed, zapped, finished, murked, scragged, waxed, abolished, asphyxiated, beheaded, chilled, cooled, decapitated, defeated, did, done, electrocuted, eradicated, exterminated … more
murdering
  1. present participle of murder
  2. Synonyms:
      3. getting, assassinating, executing, killing, taking out, bumping off, dispatching, knocking off, putting away, whacking, doing in, icing, liquidating, neutralising, neutralizing, offing, rubbing out, slaying, snuffing, terminating, garrotting, massacring, slaughtering, eliminating, butchering, wasting, hitting, croaking, stiffing, destroying, topping, zapping, smoking, waxing, murking, finishing, scragging, asphyxiating, shooting, putting to death, cutting to pieces, electrocuting, doing for, abolishing, beheading, mowing down, giving someone the works, chillin, dusting off, cooling … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Only, it wasn't a murdering fiend who walked in. It was Malone, dark hair a little mussed.”
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