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# murderess

«murderess» in Mova's school dictionary: **a woman who has killed another person on purpose** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural murderesses)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A murderess is a woman who has killed another person on purpose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murderess/#m1)

2) (old use) In old stories, the word means a female murderer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murderess/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a woman who has killed someone; in tales she is often the villain the hero must find

### examples

- He searched everywhere for the murderess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murderess/#x1)
- Nobody could find the murderess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murderess/#x2)
- The King was told the Queen was a murderess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murderess/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «murderess» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murderess/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.