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• n  a woman murderer
• v  kill intentionally and with premeditation
• v  alter so as to make unrecognizable

• She has half a dozen briskly selling albums on the market, will appear as the murderess Nancy in the forthcoming film version of Faulkner's Sanctuary.
• All but gone are such implicitly pejorative nouns as poetess, murderess, coed and comedienne.
• The White House also requestedand, not surprisingly, was grantedthe early reprieve of Mary Fitzpatrick from a Georgia prison so that the convicted murderess could continue .

• murder
• slay
• hit
• dispatch
• bump off
• off
• polish off
• remove
• mangle
• mutilate

News & Articles

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• Billy Campbell and Clea Duvall join cast of Lizzie Borden flick
  Lifetime has added Billy Campbell and Clea Duvall to its Lizzie Borden movie starring Christina Ricci as the infamously suspected ax murderess. Campbell will play Borden’s attorney, Andrew Jennings, and Duvall will play Borden’s sister, Emma Borden. Lizzie Borden was tried, and acquitted, for the 1892 ax murders...
  June 17, 2013 - New York Post
• Campbell, Clea join Lizzie flick
  Lifetime has added Billy Campbell and Clea Duvall to its Lizzie Borden movie starring Christina Ricci as the infamously suspected ax murderess. Campbell will play Borden’s attorney, Andrew Jennings, and Duvall will play Borden’s sister, Emma Borden. Lizzie Borden was tried, and acquitted, for the 1892 ax murders...
  June 17, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Anne Dudek in TV Squad (blog)
  The people I've played recently, like an evil doctor or a murderess polygamist, are fun and you get to use your imagination in a really interesting way. But this role is more about things that are closer to me and the people that I know,says...
• David Starkey in Scotland on Sunday
  TV historian David Starkey called Mary, Queen of Scots, "a whore and a trollop and a murderess", accused the Scots of "adoring failure", and branded the SNP "utterly contemptible".