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单词 firing squad
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firing squadnoun [ C ]

uk/ˈfaɪə.rɪŋ ˌskwɒd/us/ˈfaɪ.rɪŋ ˌskwɑːd/

a group of soldiers who are ordered to shoot and kill a prisoner

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Death penalties

  • behead
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  • chair
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  • condemn sb to (do) sth
  • condemned
  • decapitate
  • execute
  • execution
  • executioner
  • gallows
  • hanging
  • hangman
  • hung, drawn, and quartered idiom
  • noose
  • scaffold
  • stake
  • stone
  • string

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Parts of armies & groups of servicemen

Examples from literature

  • Barney wondered just what kind of a sensation it was to stand facing a firing squad. 
  • I'd rather die before a firing squad after an attempt to save my wretched country than live to see it set back a hundred years. 
  • It halted and the man took his place before the firing squad but a few feet away. 
  • Suppose they took her for a spy, and that tomorrow's sun found her facing a firing squad? 
  • The young officer who commanded them was more nervous than the prisoner—it was his first detail with a firing squad. 

firing squadnoun [ C ]

/ˈfɑɪər·ɪŋ ˌskwɑd/

a group of soldiers whose job is to shoot and kill someone as a punishment

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