Definitions for nooses

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Spelling: [noos]
IPA: /nus/

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

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in nooses (enooss).

Definitions for nooses

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 nooses

1400-50; late Middle English nose

Examples for nooses

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Word Value for nooses
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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