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BURNING AT THE STAKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does burning at the stake mean?
• BURNING AT THE STAKE (noun)
The noun BURNING AT THE STAKE has 1 sense:
1. execution by fire
Familiarity information: BURNING AT THE STAKE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Execution by fire
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
burning; burning at the stake
Hypernyms ("burning at the stake" is a kind of...):
capital punishment; death penalty; executing; execution (putting a condemned person to death)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "burning at the stake"):
auto-da-fe (the burning to death of heretics (as during the Spanish Inquisition))
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