deathsman

noun

Definition of deathsmannext
as in executioner

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  1. executioner
  2. murderer
  3. executor
  4. hangman
  5. assassin
  6. headsman
  7. killer
Noun
  • Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972) Blue Eye Samurai owes a debt to countless stories of wandering warriors, among them Lone Wolf and Cub, in which a shōgun’s executioner turned outcast wanders the countryside with his toddler son (and a baby cart rigged with weapons).
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Iran, one of the world’s top executioners, typically hangs condemned prisoners before sunrise.
    Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of executioner
Noun
  • Movie gods, hear our prayer: may cinematic murderers never remember to shut their blinds, amen.
    Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2024
  • More to Read For Subscribers A child’s murderer could be freed.
    Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of murderer
Noun
  • Elvis’ will appointed his father, Vernon Presley, as the executor and trustee of his estate.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 8 Oct. 2024
  • And its existence as a finished, bound, actually readable object is thanks largely to years of efforts by Harlan’s friend, partner in crime and the executor of his estate, J. Michael Straczynski.
    Jason Sheehan, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of executor
Noun
  • Did Erik Menendez really play hangman with Leslie Abramson in court?
    Jessica Sager, People.com, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The second story is about Eichmann’s prison guard, Haim (Yoav Levi), a Moroccan Jew who takes pains to make sure his charge is unharmed and delivered to the hangman’s noose in as good a shape as possible.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 28 June 2024
Definition of hangman
Noun
  • Harris' lead is driven by older women voters and women independents. Nov. 3: Trump escalates violent rhetoric, suggesting at a Pennsylvania rally that an assassin would have to shoot through the news media to hit him.
    Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
  • And during this year’s election, the FBI foiled a plot by Iran to pay an assassin $1 million to kill Donald Trump.
    Brian Bennett, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of assassin
Noun
  • Several other leading figures of the period ended their days on the executioner’s block, including the unhappy Comte de Chalais, whose headsman bungled the job and ended up frantically chopping away at his screaming victim with a small hatchet.
    David A. Bell, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2012
  • Even if your reality is the headsman’s block!
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2021
Definition of headsman
Noun
  • These heavy duty packing cubes come in at a killer price ($15 for the 5-liter and $20 for the 10-liter) and definitely delivered in terms of packability and durability.
    Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The jokes just aren’t funny enough — though there is one killer line about Shehzada, which was one of Aaryan’s major flops — and the scares aren’t terrifying enough.
    Anupama Chopra, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of killer
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