Thesaurus:kill by hanging

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

• lynch

Hypernyms

• execute    [⇒ thesaurus]
• kill    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:die by hanging
• Thesaurus:gallows
• Thesaurus:gallows bird
• Thesaurus:hangworthy

Further reading

• “972. punishment” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “kill by hanging” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.