Meaning of string up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To kill (a person) by hanging, especially to lynch.
   idiomatic, transitive
2. To die by hanging.
   idiomatic, intransitive, obsolete
3. To suspend by means of rope, cord or similar material.
   idiomatic, transitive
4. To concatenate; to link in a line.
   idiomatic, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“I'd string up the whole lot if I had my way, Silver. Poachers and blackguards every one of them.”

“After years of brutal repression, any member of Saddam's palace guard stands to be strung up from the nearest lamppost by a vengeful Iraqi populace.”

“"And now, my friend," said the Captain, "let us understand each other. You have confessed yourself a spy, and should string up to the next tree."”

“He has scars on his ankles, feet and hands from where they strung him up with ropes and beat him.”

“to string up a sentence”

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