Thesaurus:die by hanging
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]Sense: to be killed by suspension by the neck
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- dance upon nothing (archaic)
- dangle
- hang
- ride a horse foaled by an acorn (obsolete)
- string up (obsolete)
- swing
- take a ride to Tyburn (archaic)
- trine (thieves' cant)
Various
[edit]- kill by hanging [⇒ thesaurus]
Hypernyms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “972. punishment” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “die by hanging” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.