BURNING AT THE STAKE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Execution by fire

Synonyms:

burning; burning at the stake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("burning at the stake" is a kind of...):

capital punishment; death penalty; executing; execution (putting a condemned person to death)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "burning at the stake"):

auto-da-fe (the burning to death of heretics (as during the Spanish Inquisition))

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