stringing up
Hoisting by rope
Stringing up means hanging—either literally suspending something with string or rope, or executing someone by hanging.
You might string up Christmas lights or string up laundry to dry.
The grimmer sense evokes vigilante justice and lynching: The mob threatened to string him up.
To be strung up can also mean tense or anxious: She was all strung up before the interview.
- nooseLoop that constricts
- hangingExecution by noose
- suspendHalt or hang temporarily
- lynchingExtrajudicial killing by mob
- lynch mobCrowd executing without trial
dangle · gallows · execution · rope · knot · crime · decorations · Christmas lights · scaffold · chain · mob · violence · hitching · lights · intimidation · hoisting · death penalty · death sentence
stringing uptaking down
Recording in writing
laying down · bringing down · lowering · putting down · grounding
stringing upcutting down
Decreasing or felling
releasing · freeing · sparing · letting go · pardoning
stringing uptaking down
Recording in writing
removing · unstringing · dismantling · disassembling · packing up
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