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22 January
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What is the difference between killer and assassin and murderer ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between killer and assassin and murderer ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Murderer and killer are both people who kill a person or something of significance that is alive. If you really want to be specific, a murderer can be a killer, but the action that a murderer performs has to be illegal. A killer can kill, but can do so legally, like in war.
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A killer can be somebody who kills another. Murderer and killer are synonyms. However, an assassination is where an assassin kills a person for political reasons, where the target is usually a person of political importance.
- Spanish (Colombia)
- Spanish (Colombia)
@orphean but, what about murderer and killer? I mean, maybe a slight difference in tone, or what does the words evoke?
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Murderer and killer are both people who kill a person or something of significance that is alive. If you really want to be specific, a murderer can be a killer, but the action that a murderer performs has to be illegal. A killer can kill, but can do so legally, like in war.
- English (US)
assassin - professional killer
murderer - someone who has killed at least once.
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