Mass Murderer (Noun)
Meaning
A person who is responsible for the deaths of many victims in a single incident.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The serial killer was also a mass murderer, having killed 17 people in a single rampage at the shopping mall.
- He was sentenced to life in prison without parole for his crimes as a mass murderer.
- The news report identified the gunman as a mass murderer who had planned the attack on the school for months.
- The community struggled to come to terms with the fact that one of their own was a mass murderer who had taken the lives of so many innocent people.
- The psychologist studied the case of the mass murderer, trying to understand what had driven him to commit such atrocities.