killer — OET · Shobdo

killer

noun

1 police are searching for clues to help find the killer:

murderer, slaughterer, destroyer, liquidator, exterminator, terminator, executioner;

literary slayer;

dated homicide.

2 the major killers are coronary disease, stroke, and cancer:

cause of death, fatal/deadly illness, destroyer, threat to life, menace, plague, scourge, peril.

killer Oxford Dictionary of English