All noose synonyms
noose
N n noun noose
- loop — a hot bloom of pasty consistency, to be worked under a hammer or in rolls.
- lasso — a long rope or line of hide or other material with a running noose at one end, used for roping horses, cattle, etc.
- lariat — a long, noosed rope used to catch horses, cattle, or other livestock; lasso.
- halter — Archaic. lameness; a limp.
- rope — a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- riata — a lariat.
- hitch — to fasten or tie, especially temporarily, by means of a hook, rope, strap, etc.; tether: Steve hitched the horse to one of the posts.
- snare — one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.
- tie — to bind, fasten, or attach with a cord, string, or the like, drawn together and knotted: to tie a tin can on a dog's tail.
- trap — a ladder or ladderlike device used to reach a loft, attic, etc.
- trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
- ruse — a city in N Bulgaria, on the Danube.
verb noose
- strangulate — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
- strung up — tense, anxious
- stoppered — a person or thing that stops.
- string up — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- garrote — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- choke — When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
- garroted — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- scrag — a lean or scrawny person or animal.
- hang — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- gibbet — a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.