Definition for Gibbet:

• A gallows on which criminals are hanged, or on which they were formerly exposed in chains; the projecting beam of a crane; any cross beam like a gallows.

Synonyms for Gibbet:

• n.

  •
  • crucifixion,
  • execute,
  • the chair,
  • death warrant,
  • death sentence,
  • capital punishment,
  • death row,
  • lynching tree,
  • the death penalty,
  • behead.
  •gallous (noun)
  • gallous.
  •gallows (noun)
  • hanging,
  • scaffold,
  • rope,
  • Potence.
  •gallowstree (noun)
  • gallowstree.
  •gibbet (noun)
  • pillory.
  •punishment device (noun)
  • gas chamber,
  • captivity,
  • electric chair,
  • stocks,
  • birch rod,
  • solitary confinement,
  • thumbscrew,
  • block,
  • switch,
  • maiden,
  • cowhide,
  • rawhide,
  • rack,
  • thong,
  • stake,
  • truncheon,
  • strap,
  • prison,
  • rod,
  • jail,
  • whip,
  • torture chamber,
  • cane,
  • ax,
  • lash,
  • bull whip,
  • guillotine,
  • iron,
  • whipping post.

• v.

  •choke (verb)
  • dam,
  • close,
  • constrict,
  • stopper,
  • bar,
  • stifle,
  • suffocate,
  • check,
  • stuff,
  • gasp,
  • congest,
  • overpower,
  • obstruct,
  • stunt,
  • stop,
  • throttle,
  • strangle,
  • noose,
  • squeeze,
  • fill,
  • wring,
  • suppress,
  • clog,
  • asphyxiate,
  • gag,
  • kill,
  • die,
  • drown,
  • retard.
  •hang (verb)
  • hoist,
  • scrag,
  • lynch,
  • stretch.
  •social (verb)
  • gibbet.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • swing.
  •hang
  • scrags,
  • Scragged,
  • send to the gallows,
  • lynching,
  • scragging,
  • stringing up,
  • strung up.

Antonyms for Gibbet:

• v.

  • choke
    continue, unconstrict, liberate, open, aid, encourage, permit, begin, help, assist, unblock, expand, loosen, allow, loose, release, advance, free, start, let go.

Gibbet Sentence Examples:

• Some were for dragging forth the governor's corpse to the market - place, and fixing his head upon a gibbet.

• Will the Necrophori pass on, indifferent to the superb morsel which they see and smell a few inches above their heads, or will they make it drop from its gibbet?

Hyponym for Gibbet:

• v.

  • social
    hang, string up.