noose

Speech parts

1. noose - Noun

2. noose - Verb

Meaning

A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it is drawn.

To tie in a noose; to catch in a noose; to entrap; to insnare.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lynch bola slipknot gibbet gallows lasso wire loop rope trap snare gin hemp hoop decoy
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Antonyms

repulse fight combat dispute counter contest
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Hypernyms

secure loop fix trap fasten intertwine

Hyponyms

clinch clench

Phrases with the word

hangman's noose executioner's noose

Derivatives

noosed noosing

Anagrams

oones osone soone

Examples

A black student found what appeared to be a noose fashioned from toilet paper on their dorm room door in October. Source: Internet

Excerpts When I undertake the dissection of a human pelvis I pass a stout rope tied like a noose beneath the lower jaw and through the zygomas up to the top of the head.. Source: Internet

Another photo is a close-up of one of the bedsheets that had been tied into a noose. Source: Internet

Could you have pictured in 1968 or 1974 White boys pushing at N.A.S.C.A.R. a Black guy’s car in solidarity, because he was disrespected with a noose? Source: Internet

A noose hung from the branch of a gnarled tree. Source: Internet

Booker claims he heard an unidentified man say "get a noose, not get a rope but literally get a noose." Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

noosance Noosaville nooscopic noosed nooseless nooselike