murderess
- 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 .