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murderee

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Etymology

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From murder +‎ -ee.

Noun

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murderee (plural murderees) (rare)

  1. A murder victim.
    • 1970, David Cort, Revolution by Cliché:
      ...and so the problem becomes how to salvage the murderer, since the murderee is beyond recall.
    • 2001, Jim Crace, Being Dead:
      This was the murderee, a rich young man with narrow lips and the tussock hairstyle that had been fashionable five years before.

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