hangman

noun

Definition of hangmannext
as in executioner

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Recent Examples of hangman At the end of long days, Banjo would bring his kids to the office, and the group — Kotwica, Banjo and the kids — would play games of hangman on the greaseboard. — Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2025 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 The death penalty has just been abolished in the United Kingdom, and all the townspeople in Oldham want to know what the second-best hangman in the country has to say about it. — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • To me, that is not the reaction of a woman who just found out her fiancé was a murderer.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The writer Larry Kramer branded him a murderer in an open letter published in 1988.
    — Michael Collins, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of murderer
Noun
  • Barrow is the sole trustee of the trust and executor of Voletta’s estate.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2026
  • While Houston died in 2012, this Barbie was created in partnership with Pat Houston, executor of Whitney Houston’s estate.
    — Alexis Mikulski Ruiz, VIBE.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of executor
Noun
  • Sharlto Copley brings ferocious life to his role as an assassin, setting a record in the process for the most times one person can have his head explode in a single film.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Created by Tessa Coates, Ride Or Die centers on an assassin, Judith (Waddingham), whose best friend of more than 20 years, MP’s wife Debbie (Spencer), is pulled into her latest case.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of assassin

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