Antonyms for gibbeted

Grammar : Verb

Spell : jib-it

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɪb ɪt

Definition of gibbeted

Origin : early 13c., "gallows," from Old French gibet "gallows; a bent stick," diminutive of gibe "club," perhaps from Frankish *gibb "forked stick." The verb meaning "to kill by hanging" is from 1590s. Related: Gibbeted; gibbeting. "Originally synonymous with GALLOWS sb., but in later use signifying an upright post with projecting arm from which the bodies of criminals were hung in chains or irons after execution" [OED].

As in choke : verb smother, block
As in hang : verb kill by suspension from a rope

Example sentences :

Were they guilty whom you see down there gibbeted, mangled, and torn to pieces?
Extract from : « The Black Tulip » by Alexandre Dumas (Pere)

Jobling was tried at Durham Assizes, and condemned to be hanged and gibbeted.
Extract from : « Bygone Punishments » by William Andrews

And now we have been dragged from our happy seclusion and gibbeted.
Extract from : « The Hindered Hand » by Sutton E. Griggs

Murderers were gibbeted, witches burnt and duels fought here.
Extract from : « America, Volume 5 (of 6) » by Joel Cook

He was sentenced to death, and the body ordered to be gibbeted.
Extract from : « Hanging in Chains » by Albert Hartshorne

Spencer was hanged at Nottingham, and gibbeted on the scene of his crime.
Extract from : « The Great North Road: London to York » by Charles G. Harper

If he were insolent, he should be gibbeted, just as Butler of Harrow had been gibbeted.
Extract from : « The Love Affairs of Lord Byron » by Francis Henry Gribble

A woman—his wife—had gibbeted him as a man impossible to live with.
Extract from : « Mrs. Maxon Protests » by Anthony Hope

They could have seen him gibbeted with a sense of infinite satisfaction.
Extract from : « The Squire's Daughter » by Silas K(itto) Hocking

They brought it in burglary, and that's why he was hanged and gibbeted on Brown House Hill.
Extract from : « Jude the Obscure » by Thomas Hardy

Synonyms for gibbeted

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