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executioner

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of executioner

a person who executes people who have been sentenced to death

was sentenced to face the executioner

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of executioner

deathsman [archaic], decapitator, executor [obsolete], hangman, headsmen

assassin, cutthroat, homicide, killer, manslayer, murderer

butcher, massacrer, slaughterer, slayer

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