murderee

English

Etymology

murder +‎ -ee

Noun

murderee (plural murderees) (rare)

1. A murder victim.
   • 1970, David Cort, Revolution by Cliché:

     ...and so the problem becomes how to salvage the murderer, since the murderee is beyond recall.

   • 2001, Jim Crace, Being Dead:

     This was the murderee, a rich young man with narrow lips and the tussock hairstyle that had been fashionable five years before.

Translations

murder victim

• Welsh: llofruddiedig m or f