noose
noun/nuːs/
/nuːs/
- a circle that is tied in one end of a rope, with a knot that allows the circle to get smaller as the other end of the rope is pulled, that can be used to kill somebody by hanging them by the neck
- a hangman’s noose
- The noose tightened around her neck.
- They tied a noose around her neck.
- (figurative) His debts were a noose around his neck.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hangman’s
- fasten
- tie
- pull
- …
- tighten
- in a/the noose
- into a/the noose
- noose around
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: probably via Old French no(u)s from Latin nodus ‘knot’.Definitions on the go
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