Jerk
Jerk verb - To move or cause to move with a sharp quick motion.
Murder
Murder verb - To put to death deliberately.
How words are described
| old | old jerk | old murder |
| original | original jerk | original murder |
| petty | petty jerk | petty murder |
| real | real jerk | real murder |
| Other adjectives: horrible, cold, outright. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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On the jerk side: He once beat and attempted to murder his second and favored wife for making a snide remark about his poor gunmanship, and disowned Nwoye after he converted to Christianity.
Source: Literature / Things Fall Apart -
Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura has one quest where this trope features: a jerk of an elven wizard stages a suicide to look like murder to frame the hypotenuse.
Source: Suicide, Not Murder - Bulma has Goku kidnapped to protect him from someone she thinks is a jerk who is only interested in torturing his own son and using him to murder someone named Frieza.
Source: Reality Ensues / Fan Fic
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Murder and Jerk. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/jerk/murder
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