draw and quarter

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

draw and quarter (third-person singular simple present draws and quarters, present participle drawing and quartering, simple past drew and quartered, past participle drawn and quartered)

1. (transitive, historical) To execute (someone) by castration, disembowelling, beheading and quartering.
2. (transitive, figurative) To severely punish or criticize someone.

Derived terms

• hang, draw and quarter

Translations

то execute a person

• Dutch: vierendelen (nl)
• Finnish: teloittaa repimällä ja paloittelemalla
• French: écarteler (fr)
• Italian: squartare (it)
• Polish: ćwiartować impf, poćwiartować pf
• Russian: четвертова́ть (ru) (četvertovátʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рашчеречити

  Roman: raščerečiti (sh)

See also

• Hanged, drawn, and quartered on Wikipedia.Wikipedia