Phrase guide
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verb
To kill (a person) by hanging, especially to lynch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: hang, scrag, forhang, Guy Fawkes, ketch, send to the scaffold, stretch, string up, truss, tuck up
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To die by hanging.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, intransitive, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: hang, swing, dance on a rope, dance on nothing, dance the hempen jig, dance the Tyburn jig, dance upon nothing, dangle, ride a horse foaled by an acorn, stretch hemp, string up, take a ride to Tyburn, trine, truss, wag hemp
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To suspend by means of rope, cord or similar material.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To concatenate; to link in a line.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
add as if on a string
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: string
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: add
verb
kill by hanging
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: hang
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: execute, put to death
Narrower terms: halter, gibbet
History
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