Thesaurus:die by hanging
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.