Definitions for noose

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Spelling: [noos]
IPA: /nus/

Noose is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in noose (enoos).

Definitions for noose

noun

  1. a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled.
  2. a tie or bond; snare.

verb (used with object)

  1. to secure by or as by a noose.
  2. to make a noose with or in (a rope or the like).

Origin of noose

1400-50; late Middle English nose

Examples for noose

If he were hanged for it he had run his craig into the noose.

The cover image of your book—a dangling badge—resembles a noose, understandably so.

Wait till you see me slipping my neck into a noose held by your fingers.

Standing behind me, jerking at the noose, he commanded me to hold up my hands.

Tighten this noose and make Khartoum a very small place to live.

It was asked, left to right, across the stage, bypassing Gingrich, tightening the noose.

But for Israel the “Arab Spring” represents  a dramatic, abrupt tightening of the noose.

Old Noll had a noose of hemp ready for horse-stealers, were they for King or for Parliament.

He shook out the noose of his rope, and it sang as it whirled in the air.

It has recently ruled over the country with an iron fist, increasingly solidifying its noose on civil rights and governance.

Word Value for noose
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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