The mouth is the executioner and the doctor of the body.
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Executioner
//ˌɛksəˈkjuʃənɚ//
Synonyms for "executioner" (35 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (17)
Related word relations
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4 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
154 translations across 81 languages.
Albanian
3 entries- therës noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- thikar noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- xhelat noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σπεκουλάτωρ noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Arabic
1 entries- جَلَّاد noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Armenian
1 entries- դահիճ noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- cəllad noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Bashkir
1 entries- йәлләт noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Basque
1 entries- borrero noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Belarusian
1 entries- кат noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Bengali
1 entries- জল্লাদ noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Bulgarian
2 entries- джела́т noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- пала́ч noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Burmese
1 entries- အာဏာသား noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Catalan
2 entries- botxina noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- botxí noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 劊子手 /刽子手 noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- 处刑人 noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- 杀手 noun (a hit man)
Czech
2 entries- kat noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- popravčí noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Danish
2 entries- bøddel noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- skarpretter noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Dutch
1 entries- beul noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Esperanto
1 entries- ekzekutisto noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Estonian
1 entries- timukas noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Faroese
1 entries- bøðil noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Finnish
2 entries- pyöveli noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- toimeenpanija noun (someone who executes an act or will)
French
4 entries- bourreau noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- bourrelle noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- exécuteur de la haute justice noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- exécuteur des hautes œuvres noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Galician
2 entries- buxeu noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- verdugo noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Georgian
1 entries- ჯალათი noun (the person who carries out the execution)
German
4 entries- Henker noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- Henkerin noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- Scharfrichter noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- Scharfrichterin noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Greek
3 entries- δήμιος noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- εκτελεστής noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- εκτελεστής noun (someone who executes an act or will)
Hebrew
1 entries- תַּלְיָן noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Hindi
1 entries- जल्लाद noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Hungarian
1 entries- hóhér noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Icelandic
1 entries- böðull noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Indonesian
2 entries- algojo noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- jalad noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Irish
2 entries- básadóir noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- céastúnach noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Italian
2 entries- boia noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- carnefice noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Japanese
3 entries- 処刑人 noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- 刺客 noun (a hit man)
- 死刑執行人 noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Kazakh
2 entries- жазалаушы noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- жендет noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Khmer
1 entries- ពេជ្ឈឃាដ noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Korean
2 entries- 망나니 noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- 사형 집행인 noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- желдет noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Lao
1 entries- ເພັດຊະຄາດ noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Latgalian
1 entries- kāts noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Latin
2 entries- carnifex noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- carnufex noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Latvian
1 entries- bende noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Lithuanian
1 entries- budelis noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Henker noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Macedonian
4 entries- бе́сач noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- гла́ворез noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- гла́восек noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- извршител noun (someone who executes an act or will)
Malay
4 entries- algojo noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- jalad noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- pelebaya noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- pertanda noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Malayalam
1 entries- ആരാച്ചാർ noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Maltese
1 entries- eżekutur noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Mirandese
1 entries- algoç noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Mongolian
1 entries- зандалчин noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Māori
1 entries- kaiwhakamate noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- celad noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Northern Sami
1 entries- bievval noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Norwegian
2 entries- bøddel noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- skarpretter noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- جلاد noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Pali
1 entries- vajjhaghātaka noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Pashto
1 entries- جلاد noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Persian
2 entries- جلاد noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- دژخیم noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Polish
2 entries- kat noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- oprawca noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Portuguese
2 entries- algoz noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- carrasco noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Romanian
4 entries- asasin noun (a hit man)
- călău noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- executant noun (someone who executes an act or will)
- executor noun (someone who executes an act or will)
Romansch
3 entries- boier noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- hentger noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- sbir noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Russian
4 entries- душеприка́зчик noun (someone who executes an act or will)
- душеприка́зчица noun (someone who executes an act or will)
- исполни́тель noun (someone who executes an act or will)
- исполни́тельница noun (someone who executes an act or will)
Sanskrit
2 entries- कालपाशिक noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- वधकर्माधिकारिन् noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- dželat noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- glavosek noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- glavoseča noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- krvnik noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Slovak
2 entries- kat noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- popravca noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Slovene
2 entries- krvnik noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- rabelj noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Spanish
4 entries- asesino a sueldo noun (a hit man)
- carnífice noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- sicario noun (a hit man)
- verduga noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Swahili
3 entries- mchinja noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- mchinjaji noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- mnyongaji noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Swedish
2 entries- bödel noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- skarprättare noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Tajik
1 entries- ҷаллод noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Tatar
1 entries- җәллад noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Thai
1 entries- เพชฌฆาต noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Turkish
1 entries- cellat noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Turkmen
1 entries- jellat noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Ukrainian
1 entries- кат noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- kat noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Urdu
1 entries- جلاد noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Uyghur
1 entries- جاللات noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Uzbek
1 entries- jallod noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Vietnamese
2 entries- người hành hình noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- đao phủ noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Welsh
2 entries- crogwr noun (the person who carries out the execution)
- dienyddiwr noun (the person who carries out the execution)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
The executioner fondled his hatchet and smiled complacently. He felt he was a cut above the rest.
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The executioner struck off her feet with the red shoes, and the shoes danced away with the little feet across the field into the deep forest.
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I'm your doctor, not your executioner.
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