HyperDic: burning_at_the_stake

English > 1 sense of the expression burning at the stake:
NOUNactburning at the stake, burningexecution by fire
English > burning at the stake: 1 sense > noun 1, act
Meaningexecution by fire.
Synonymburning
Narrowerauto-da-feThe burning to death of heretics (as during the Spanish Inquisition)
Broaderexecution, executing, capital punishment, death penaltyputting a condemned person to death

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