Definition
To kill (a person) by hanging, especially to lynch.
To die by hanging.
To suspend by means of rope, cord or similar material.
To concatenate; to link in a line.
In Context
- "I'd string up the whole lot if I had my way, Silver. Poachers and blackguards every one of them."
- "After years of brutal repression, any member of Saddam's palace guard stands to be strung up from the nearest lamppost by a vengeful Iraqi populace."
- ""And now, my friend," said the Captain, "let us understand each other. You have confessed yourself a spy, and should string up to the next tree.""
- "He has scars on his ankles, feet and hands from where they strung him up with ropes and beat him."
- "to string up a sentence"
Also Said As
- hang
- scrag
- forhang
- Guy Fawkes
- hang
- ketch
- send to the scaffold
- scrag
- stretch
- string up
- truss
- tuck up