Meaning of hang, draw and quarter | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To execute (someone) by hanging until nearly dead, followed by castration, disembowelling, beheading and quartering; especially as a punishment for high treason.
   historical, transitive
2. To savagely attack, or attempt to utterly destroy.
   figuratively, transitive

Examples

“[…]- and The Postgate, an inn named after a local priest, Father Nicholas Postgate, who was one of England's last Roman Catholic martyrs. He was hung, drawn and quartered at York in 1679 after baptising a child into the Roman faith.”

“hanged, drawn and quartered by the press”

“One ASLEF representative believed: "We have been made to a degree the scapegoat of many politicians. We have been hanged, drawn and quartered by Dr Beeching in order that some people can prove the failure of public ownership."”

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