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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Murderous \Mur"der*ous\, adjective Of or pertaining to murder; characterized by, or causing, murder or bloodshed; having the purpose or quality of murder; bloody; sanguinary; as, the murderous king; murderous rapine; murderous intent; a murderous assault. ''Murderous coward.'' --Shak. -- {Mur"der*ous*ly}, adverb
Syn: Bloody; sanguinary; bloodguilty; bloodthirsty; fell; savage; cruel.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
murderous
adjective: capable of or conducive to bloodshed; "a cutthroat rogue"; "a homicidal rage"; "murderous thugs" [syn: {cutthroat}, {homicidal}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "murderous": Draconian, Tartarean, animal, anthropophagous, arduous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, cruel-hearted, cutthroat, deadly, deathly, demoniac, demoniacal, destructive, devastating, devilish, diabolic, difficult, exhausting, fatal, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, gory, harrowing, hellish, homicidal, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, intolerable, kill-crazy, killing, lethal, malign, malignant, merciless, mortal, murdering, noncivilized, pitiless, red-handed, rigorous, ruinous, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguine, sanguineous, satanic, savage, self-destructive, sharkish, slaughterous, slavering, strenuous, stressful, subhuman, suicidal, tameless, truculent, unbearable, unchristian, uncivilized, ungentle, unhuman, untamed, vicious, wild, wolfish
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