slayer

/ˈsleɪər/

/ˈsleɪə/

Other forms: slayers

Definitions of slayer

1. noun

   someone who causes the death of a person or animal
   synonyms: killer

   types:

   executioner, public executioner

   an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant

   eradicator, exterminator, terminator

   someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)

   choker, garroter, garrotter, strangler, throttler

   someone who kills by strangling

   liquidator, manslayer, murderer

   a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)

   poisoner

   someone who kills with poison

   regicide

   someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king

   felo-de-se, suicide

   a person who kills himself intentionally

   assassin, assassinator, bravo

   a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed

   butcher

   a brutal indiscriminate murderer

   cutthroat

   someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat

   electrocutioner

   an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person

   fratricide

   a person who murders their brother or sister

   gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman

   a professional killer who uses a gun

   hangman

   an executioner who hangs the condemned person

   hatchet man, iceman

   a professional killer

   headman, headsman

   an executioner who beheads the condemned person

   infanticide

   a person who murders an infant

   mass murderer

   a person who is responsible for the deaths of many victims in a single incident

   murderess

   a woman murderer

   parricide

   someone who kills his or her parent

   ripper

   a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife

   serial killer, serial murderer

   someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval

   type of:

   individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

   a human being