"countermurder" meaning in All languages combined

See countermurder on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: countermurders [plural]
Etymology: From counter- + murder. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|counter-|murder}} counter- + murder Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} countermurder (countable and uncountable, plural countermurders)
  1. A murder in response to another murder. Tags: countable, uncountable

Inflected forms

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          "text": "I go out with him on tour in his armored car through Bujumbura's ethnically cleansed neighborhoods to talk to the adolescents with the Kalashnikovs and grenades, who for the price of a few beers will firebomb a street. He gets out and confronts them, telling them that the cycle of murder and countermurder must stop, or they will all be swept away.",
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