Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: executioner
IPA transcription: [,ɛksəkj'uʃənɚ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: executioner, public_executioner
    Meaning: an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant
Usage examples
  • Upon my word, you killed him ere the executioner had laid his hand upon him."
  • "For a very serious matter, which bids fair to make work for the executioner."
  • Here, she knew, dwelt the executioner; and she tapped with her fingers at the window, and said, "Come out!
  • "Thief," she cried coarsely, "do you think I am ignorant of the theft of the ring, and what difficulty you had to escape the executioner's sword?
  • He shut me up in a large case and ordered his executioner to carry me into a desert place, to cut off my head, and then to abandon my body to the birds of prey.
  • But the usurper's cruelty did not stop here; he ordered me to be shut up in a machine, and commanded the executioner to carry me into the country, to cut off my head, and leave me to be devoured by birds of prey.
  • And Zinoviev, crying, "This day we have paid our debt to the international proletariat, and struck a terrible blow at the war, a terrible body-blow at all the imperialists and particularly at Wilhelm the Executioner...."
  • At sunset they stopped to rest in a churchyard, where two men were sitting patching a Punch-and-Judy show booth, while the figures of Punch, the doctor, the executioner and the devil were lying on the grass waiting to be mended.
  • Why, every day in the trenches we go cheerfully to expose ourselves to worse than that--for a bullet may break a leg, and I am convinced a surgeon would give us more pain in cutting off a thigh than an executioner in cutting off a head.
  • As the executioner seized her by the hand to lift her out of the cart, she hastily threw the eleven coats of mail over the swans, and they immediately became eleven handsome princes; but the youngest had a swan's wing instead of an arm, for she had not been able to finish the last sleeve of the coat.