string sb up
informal— phrasal verb with string uk/strɪŋ/us/strɪŋ/verb [ T ] strung, strung
to kill someone by hanging them by the neck from a rope, usually as a punishment for a crime:
He's one of those old-fashioned types who thinks criminals ought to be strung up.
to punish someone severely:
He ought to be strung up for what he said about his mother.
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Death penalties
- behead
- burn
- capital punishment
- chair
- condemn
- 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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