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