EXECUTIONER Synonyms
There are 2 hypernyms of the word executioner. (close relations)
executed
Best Alternative Words for EXECUTIONER
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assassin | nounn | |||||||
noun • a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed • a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders | ||||||||
butcher | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a retailer of meat • a brutal indiscriminate murderer • a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market • someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence verb • kill (animals) usually for food consumption | ||||||||
garroter | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • someone who kills by strangling | ||||||||
hangman | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • an executioner who hangs the condemned person | ||||||||
headsman | nounn | |||||||
noun • an executioner who beheads the condemned person | ||||||||
killer | nounn | |||||||
noun • someone who causes the death of a person or animal • the causal agent resulting in death • a difficulty that is hard to deal with • predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas | ||||||||
slaughterer | nounn | |||||||
noun • a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | ||||||||
slayer | nounn | |||||||
noun • someone who causes the death of a person or animal | ||||||||
strangler | nounn | |||||||
noun • an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree • someone who kills by strangling | ||||||||
public executioner | nounn | |||||||
noun • an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant |