different between ravager vs killer
ravager
English
Etymology
ravage +? -er
Noun
ravager (plural ravagers)
- One who ravages.
Translations
Anagrams
- Vergara
French
Etymology
From noun use of earlier ravage (“act of laying waste”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a.va.?e/
Verb
ravager
- to ravage, to ruin
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written ravage- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /?/ and not a “hard” /?/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.
Related terms
- ravage
- ravageur
Further reading
- “ravager” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- gravera
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killer
English
Etymology
kill +? -er.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?l?(?)/, [?k??l?(?)]
- (US) IPA(key): /?k?l?/, [?k???l?]
- Rhymes: -?l?(r)
Noun
killer (countable and uncountable, plural killers)
- One who or that which kills.
- Synonyms: assassin, murderer; see also Thesaurus:killer
- (figuratively) That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
- (figuratively) Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
- (sports, uncountable) A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
- Ellipsis of killer whale.
- 1966, Sarah Regal Riedman, Elton T. Gustafson, Home is the Sea: for Whales (page 116)
- There is, however, one species of whale that habitually preys upon other warm-blooded animals—the killer whale. Really a large dolphin, the killer was classified by Linnaeus as Orcinus orca, and by Cope as Grampus rectipinna.
- 1966, Sarah Regal Riedman, Elton T. Gustafson, Home is the Sea: for Whales (page 116)
- A club used for killing fish.
- (philately) A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
- A diacritical mark used in Indic scripts to suppress an inherent vowel (e.g., the Hindi viram, the Bengali or Oriya hasanta) or render the entire syllable silent (e.g., the Burmese virama, the Khmer toandakhiat).
- Synonyms: virama, halant, vowel killer
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Italian: killer
- ? Japanese: ??? (kir?)
Translations
Adjective
killer (comparative more killer, superlative most killer)
- (slang) Excellent, very good, cool.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:excellent
- Causing death, destruction, or obliteration.
- Distressing, uncomfortable.
Usage notes
- In the sense of causing death or distress, killer is seldom used attributively.
Derived terms
- killer app
- killer cancel
- killer whale
See also
- anusvara
- candrabindu
- sukun
- visarga
Anagrams
- rekill
Dutch
Pronunciation
Adjective
killer
- Comparative form of kil
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English killer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kil.ler/
- Hyphenation: kil?ler
Noun
killer m (invariable)
- hitman (hired assassin)
Derived terms
- killeraggio
- killerare
Further reading
- killer in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Luxembourgish
Adjective
killer
- feminine dative of kill
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