hangman

noun

Definition of hangmannext
as in executioner

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Recent Examples of hangman The nursery consists of coral fragments that dangle from hangman structures that the Coral Restoration Foundation put 30 feet under the surface. — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 17 Aug. 2025 Even-handed, compassionate, and as suffocatingly tense as a hangman's noose, Munich is Spielberg's most underrated film. — Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2026 Just after the American Civil War, people in Pennsylvania were still following the ancient Roman polymath Pliny’s advice to wrap their aching heads with a piece of a hangman’s noose. — Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026 Middle East historian Ervand Abrahamian detailed in his 1999 book Tortured Confessions that the committee refused to use a firing squad because of the noise, even when the hangmen complained of the grueling labor involved in hanging so many. — Kasra Naji, Foreign Affairs, 17 Aug. 2016 See All Example Sentences for hangman
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hangman
  1. executioner
  2. headsman
  3. murderer
  4. executor
  5. assassin
Noun
  • She was executed on May 27, 1541 by an executioner’s assistant, the executioner having been called away that day.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • In 2003 the United States topples Hussein and delivers him to his executioners.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
Definition of executioner
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  • Two other men, subjects of excellent Holbein drawings in the show, would keep appointments with the headsman.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Once upon a time, the queen could have sent rebels to the Tower and the headsman’s block, even relatives—especially relatives.
    — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
Definition of headsman
Noun
  • This psychological thriller stars Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby, a man with anterograde amnesia struggling to track down his wife’s murderer using a system of tattoos and notes.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • Deputy Solicitor General Eric Feigin said blocking such searches would handicap police searching for murderers, kidnappers and robbers.
    — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 29 June 2026
Definition of murderer
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  • Contact certain people about the debt Debt collectors are generally permitted to contact the executor, administrator or personal representative handling the estate.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • The digital replication right does not expire at a person’s death, and can be transferred and licensed by heirs, executors and others.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 18 June 2026
Definition of executor
Noun
  • These artisans, with their trade secrets, were kept on Murano, a cluster of islands just across the lagoon from the city, ostensibly as a precaution against fire, though the state would also send assassins after anyone who tried to leave.
    — Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • As a pirate assassin and post-apocalyptic warrior, Krem of the Yellow Hills connects with Aries.
    — Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
Definition of assassin

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