Meanings
nounmurderee (plural murderees)
plural murderees
- rareA murder victim.
...and so the problem becomes how to salvage the murderer, since the murderee is beyond recall.
1970, David Cort, Revolution by Cliché1 more example
This was the murderee, a rich young man with narrow lips and the tussock hairstyle that had been fashionable five years before.
2001, Jim Crace, Being Dead
Origin
Translations
Welsh llofruddiedig
- llofruddiedigmurder victim
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