Thesaurus:kill by hanging
English
Verb
Sense: to kill someone by suspending them by the neck
Synonyms
- forhang (obsolete)
- Guy Fawkes
- hang
- ketch (rare)
- send to the scaffold
- scrag
- stretch (archaic, slang)
- string up
- truss (archaic, slang)
- tuck up (obsolete, slang)
Antonyms
- die by hanging [⇒ thesaurus]
Hyponyms
Hypernyms
See also
Further reading
- “972. punishment” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “kill by hanging” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.