string up

Definitions

1. 1

   To kill (a person) by hanging, especially to lynch.

   • I'd string up the whole lot if I had my way, Silver. Poachers and blackguards every one of them.
   • After years of brutal repression, any member of Saddam's palace guard stands to be strung up from the nearest lamppost by a vengeful Iraqi populace.
2. 2

   To die by hanging.

   • "And now, my friend," said the Captain, "let us understand each other. You have confessed yourself a spy, and should string up to the next tree."
3. 3

   To suspend by means of rope, cord or similar material.

   • He has scars on his ankles, feet and hands from where they strung him up with ropes and beat him.
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   1. 4

      To concatenate

      To concatenate; to link in a line.

      • to string up a sentence

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