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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