noose

noun

/nuːs/

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单词	noose
释义	noose noun /nuːs/ /nuːs/ jump to other results a circle that is tied in one end of a rope, with a knot that allows the circle to get smaller as the other end of the rope is pulled, that can be used to kill somebody by hanging them by the neck a hangman’s noose The noose tightened around her neck. They tied a noose around her neck. (figurative) His debts were a noose around his neck. Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective hangman’s verb + noose fasten tie pull … noose + verb tighten preposition in a/the noose into a/the noose noose around … See full entry Word Originlate Middle English: probably via Old French no(u)s from Latin nodus ‘knot’.
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