- killer, slayer - someone who causes the death of a person or animal
--1 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
--1 has particulars:executioner, public executioner; exterminator, terminator, eradicator; garroter, garrotter, strangler, throttler, choker; murderer, liquidator, manslayer; poisoner; regicide; suicide, felo-de-se Derived form: verb slay1