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mörderisch — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cutthroat adj Ruthlessly competitive, with no regard for fairness or the interests of others.
  • gory adj Covered in blood, or full of graphic bloody violence.
  • murder noun The crime of deliberately killing another person.
  • murderous adj Intending or likely to kill; extremely violent.
  • sanguinary adj Involving bloodshed.
  • slaughterous adj prone to slaughtering

Senses

mörderisch is used for these senses in English:

  • cutthroat Ruthlessly competitive, dog-eat-dog.
  • gory Covered with blood; very bloody.
  • murder (uncountable, used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.
  • slaughterous prone to slaughtering

cutthroat — full definition

  1. adj Ruthlessly competitive, with no regard for fairness or the interests of others.
  2. adj Describing a variant of a card or board game where each player competes individually rather than in teams.

gory — full definition

  1. adj Covered in blood, or full of graphic bloody violence.
  2. adj Given in excessive, sometimes tedious detail.

Related German words