Thesaurus results for DECAPITATOR

decapitator

noun

Definition of decapitator

as in executioner

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Noun

But Bruce Wayne isn’t a boy anymore, and Batman can’t operate as a one-man judge, jury, and executioner.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 2 Aug. 2026
The kingdom remains one of the world’s top executioners behind China and Iran.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026

Definition of executioner

Noun

Fleming remains in the fold at Universal after being tapped for a role alongside a murderer’s row of fellow comics in the Judd Apatow-Glen Powell comedy The Comeback King, out February 5.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 31 July 2026
In the somewhat convoluted progress of Mitchell’s script, their ego war is eventually eclipsed by fears there’s a genuine murderer on the loose — perhaps even an actual vampire.

— Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 July 2026

Definition of murderer

Noun

Created by Tessa Coates, Ride or Die is a spy action comedy about an assassin, Judith (Waddingham) whose latest case inadvertently involves her best friend of more than 20 years, Debbie (Spencer), a politician’s wife.

— Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 4 Aug. 2026
This show loves nothing more this season than to introduce a potential assassin and promptly thwart his plan via blade to the head or neck.

— Brian Grubb, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of assassin

Noun

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

The former cop also claimed to have found a hangman’s noose under Epstein’s mattress.

— Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 16 June 2026
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

Definition of hangman

Noun

Pat Houston, Whitney Houston’s sister-in-law, former manager, and now the executor of her estate, confirmed to Vanity Fair that the lack of a Cinderella album was a great heartbreak of Houston’s career.

— Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 29 July 2026
That longer period can be helpful when no beneficiary is designated for the stock options and a personal representative/executor needs to be appointed during the probate process.

— Bruce Brumberg, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of executor

Noun

Before Salguero-Olivares was charged, Hedgepeth’s mother, Connie Hedgepeth, spoke exclusively to PEOPLE about her hopes for the case and her daughter’s killer.

— Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 4 Aug. 2026
The district attorney who put the killer behind bars for the rest of his life and won an unprecedented murder conviction against his father, agreed.

— Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026

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