Word family
(noun)
murdermurderer
(adjective)
murderous
(verb)
murder
(adverb)
murderously
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmurderousmur‧der‧ous /ˈmɜːdərəs $ ˈmɜːr-/ adjective1KILLvery dangerous and likely to kill people
a murderous attack
murderous drug dealers2 →murderous look/expression/glare etc —murderously adverbExamples from the Corpusmurderous• Cheating made him squirm; it made him nervous and murderous.• If the sun came out now it would be murderous.• Miranda kicked her dressingtable, feeling murderous.• She had hit him at lunchtime - her feelings now were even more murderous.• a murderousattack• In the story several people were fleeing in a car from several cars full of murderousenemies following them.• She had stopped giving me murderous looks and seemed quite bright-eyed as we got ourselves ready to leave the ship.
