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
  • Rather, the state may employ executioners with limited technical expertise and often no experience in basic anatomy or medical care.
    — Dr. Jacob Appel, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Pike, 50, suffered burns and blisters to her arms and her prognosis remains uncertain after executioners tried to give her two lethal doses of pentobarbital, her legal team said Wednesday.
    — Kate Brumback, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of executioner
Noun
  • Benjamin Rush, the Philadelphia physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, opposed executing even murderers.
    — Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Showing mercy to murderers historically has not been popular with voters.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of murderer
Noun
  • After Simpson’s death in 1986, her estate (led by Blum, the executor) auctioned off more than 230 lots of jewels and other pieces at a massive two-day sale at Sotheby’s in Geneva.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 7 Oct. 2026
  • When Hanne, a staff member of a struggling animal rescue, unexpectedly becomes executor of a wealthy hunting family’s estate, a bitter battle over the inheritance erupts.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of executor
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
  • Today in the age of AI, the threats are not just from a lone assassin's bullet but autonomous attack drones.
    — Norah O'Donnell, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Based on Nick Harkaway’s novel The Price You Pay, the show follows Jackie Price, a former drug queenpin hunted by seven elite assassins.
    — Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of assassin
Noun
  • There’s dungeons or the headsman’s block for someone with that many secrets to spill.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of headsman
Noun
  • Investigators have also explored whether a serial killer could have been involved.
    — Meghan O'Brien, NBC news, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Her killer left evidence scattered at the scene of the crime and along a highway back to Chicago.
    — Natasha Holt, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of killer
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