Executioner Synonyms

ĕksĭ-kyo͝oshə-nər
An official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. killer
  2. hangman
  3. electrocutioner
  4. strangler
  5. firing-squad
  6. death-squad
  7. headsman
  8. garroter
  9. public executioner
  10. lyncher
  11. hit-man
  12. hired-gun

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Executioner Sentence Examples

  • He'd been Damian's most trusted executioner for thousands of years.

  • The executioner from the corner emerged from the shadows and took her arms.

  • The Heruli remained heathen until the overthrow of their kingdom, and retained many striking primitive customs. When threatened with death by disease or old age, they were required to call in an executioner, who stabbed them on the pyre.

  • The same day all her reputed lovers were executed; and on the 19th she herself suffered death on Tower Green, her head being struck off with a sword by the executioner of Calais brought to England for the purpose.'

  • She stayed the urge to curl up in her chair, jumping when a shadow with lopsided shoulders emerged from the corner dressed like an executioner in black hood and gloves.

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