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 Translation for 'serial killer' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a serial killer | serial killers
SYNO serial killer | serial murderer
raðmorðingi {k}serial killer
Partial Matches
bókm.
framhaldssaga {kv}
serial
raðmorð {hv}serial murder
raðnúmer {hv}serial number <S/N>
drápsmaður {k}killer
banamaður {k}killer
vegandi {k}killer
dýrT
háhyrningur {k} [Orcinus orca]
killer whale
leigumorðingi {k}contract killer
illgresiseyðir {k}weed killer
illgresiseitur {hv}weed killer
fuglafr.T
sprettgaukur {k} [Geococcyx californianus]
snake killer [greater roadrunner]
lyf
verkjatafla {kv}
pain killer [in form of a pill]
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Usage Examples English
  • In 2000 he played a drug-addicted detective tracking a serial killer in "The Watcher".
  • The serial killer Harold Shipman used diamorphine on his victims, and the subsequent Shipman Inquiry led to a tightening of the regulations surrounding the storage, prescribing and destruction of controlled drugs in the UK.
  • The British serial killer Stephen Port administered GHB to his victims.
  • Geoff Andrew of the British Film Institute believed he set the "blueprint for the serial killer movie" through "M".
  • Serial killer mystery might be thought of as an outcropping of the police procedural.

  • She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in "Monster" (2003), for which she won the Silver Bear and Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first South African to win an acting Oscar.
  • Harrison's career and assassination are closely connected with the World's Columbian Exposition, and are discussed at some length as a subplot to the two main stories (about the fair and serial killer H. ...
  • A killer is someone or something that kills, such as a murderer or a serial killer.
  • Perhaps the most infamous example is the case of Peter Stumpp (executed in 1589), the German farmer, and alleged serial killer and cannibal, also known as the Werewolf of Bedburg.
  • The infamous Whitechapel murders, purportedly composed by serial killer Jack the Ripper, were committed in London in 1888, during the mid-to-late chapter of the Victorian era.

  • Persistent urban legends do often maintain a degree of plausibility, as in the story a serial killer deliberately hiding in the back seat of a car.
  • This trilogy of horror films, which depict graphic tortures and murders, is shot as if it were amateur footage made by a serial killer and his accomplices.
  • The first version of the Corinthian is destroyed by Dream for spending several unsupervised decades on Earth as a serial killer (in Dream's view, a waste of his potential), and it is shown in "The Sandman: Overture" (2013) that Dream intended to do this before his imprisonment.
  • It was used by the serial-killer Colin Ireland to pick up victims.
  • Marvin received the role after guest-starring in a "Dragnet" episode as a serial killer.

  • In 2004, he portrayed serial killer Ted Bundy in the A&E Network film "The Riverman", which became one of the highest rated original films in the network's history and garnered a prestigious BANFF Rockie Award nomination.
  • A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more persons, [...] While most authorities set a threshold of three murders, others extend it to four or lessen it to two.
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