gallowsnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈɡæl.əʊz/us/ˈɡæl.oʊz/plural gallowsa wooden structure used, especially in the past, to hang criminals from as a form of execution (= killing as a punishment):
New witnesses have cast doubt on some of the evidence that sent the 19-year-old to the gallows.
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Death penalties
- behead
- burn
- capital punishment
- chair
- condemn
- condemn sb to (do) sth
- condemned
- decapitate
- execute
- execution
- executioner
- garrotte
- hangman
- hung, drawn, and quartered idiom
- noose
- scaffold
- stake
- stone
- string
- string sb up
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