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BURNING AT THE STAKE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Execution by fire
Synonyms:
burning; burning at the stake
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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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