KILLERS Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

killers

noun

plural of killer

as in headaches

a dull, unpleasant, or difficult piece of work weeding out that overgrown garden is going to be a killer

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as in murderers

a person who kills another person gunned down by hired killers

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Recent Examples of killers Then there’s the Trawler, part of the nouvelle vague of Los Angeles serial killers operating in Charles Manson’s wake — peer to the Night Stalker and the Hillside Strangler — and prefacing his grotesque murders with sadistic taunting. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026 Discoloration to Your Driveway Commercial weed killers can stain driveways by leaving behind white chalky residues, bleaching the stone, or damaging protective surface sealers. — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 31 July 2026 According to Barnhart, on Christmas Day 2022, Kohberger searched for 20 different serial killers. — Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 30 July 2026 The film remains as fever dreamy as ever, now with scenes that amplify the tension between the men on either side of the FBI-and-killers divide. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 July 2026 Rawson has become a bestselling author and advocate for victims of violent crime since her father's 2005 arrest, writing and speaking publicly about growing up as the daughter of one of America's most notorious serial killers. — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026 By contrast, non-selective weed killers will kill just about anything. — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 29 July 2026 Luca explained that these patches had been infested by pine bark beetles, notorious evergreen-killers that feed on stressed or weakened conifers. — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026 Instead, gaps between design and adoption or between technical elegance and business fit are often the biggest value killers. — Faruk Muratovic, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

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Noun

What hurt wasn’t just inheriting the customer-service headaches or paying my own phone bill for the first time at 27.

— Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2026
These are identified by painful headaches accompanied by light and sound sensitivity.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 30 July 2026

Definition of headaches

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Not only did the scale of the broader violence across the South indicate a campaign to mass-murder an ethnic subgroup for political purposes, but Tillman, perhaps the most infamous of the Hamburg murderers, never denied the attack’s goals.

— Jacob Ware, The Conversation, 31 July 2026
At his funeral back in Chicago, the boy’s mother, Mamie Till, insisted on an open casket so all the world could see what racist murderers had done to her only son.

— Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026

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On employment, the United States had nearly 159 million jobs in June, not including farmworkers, which was a record.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
Economists’ estimated monthly employment gains of 95,000 jobs would mark an increase from June’s lower-than-expected 57,000 jobs added.

— Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of jobs

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In November 2024, assassins on a motorcycle in the Pacific port city of Manzanaillo shot dead a rear admiral who was said to have blown the whistle on navy entanglement in fuel-smuggling.

— Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026
The young women acted as underground assassins, seducing Nazi officers, luring them into the woods and killing them.

— Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2026