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
- 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
- asphyxiate
- bar
- check
- clog
- close
- congest
- constrict
- dam
- die
- drown
- execute
- fill
- gag
- garrote
- gasp
- gibbet
- hoist
- kill
- lynch
- noose
- obstruct
- occlude
- overpower
- retard
- scrag
- send to the gallows
- squeeze
- stifle
- stop
- stopper
- strangle
- strangulate
- stretch
- string up
- stuff
- stunt
- suffocate
- suppress
- swing
- throttle
- wring
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