Meaning of countermurder | Babel Free

Definitions

A murder in response to another murder.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level