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# murderous

«murderous» in Mova's school dictionary: **wanting to kill, or meant to kill: a murderous look** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Murderous means wanting to kill, or meant to kill: a murderous look. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murderous/#m1)

2) Murderous can mean very dangerous or cruel, as in «murderous attacks». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murderous/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

describes a villain's wicked plans or a dangerous attack in a tale; the word tells us the danger is deadly

### examples

- He seized the old man because of his murderous plans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murderous/#x1)
- The dogs protected us from the murderous attacks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murderous/#x2)
- A murderous robber hid in the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/murderous/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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