noose
noun/nuːs/
/nuːs/
- 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
绳套；套索；活扣 - a hangman’s noose
绞索 - The noose tightened around her neck.
她脖子上的活扣收紧了。 - They tied a noose around her neck.
他们把绞索系在她脖子上。 - (figurative) His debts were a noose around his neck.
债务就像套在他脖子上的一条套索。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hangman’s
- fasten
- tie
- pull
- …
- tighten
- in a/the noose
- into a/the noose
- noose around
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: probably via Old French no(u)s from Latin nodus ‘knot’. - a hangman’s noose