What is another word for lapidation?
Pronunciation:
[ lˌapɪdˈe͡ɪʃən], [ lˌapɪdˈeɪʃən], [ l_ˌa_p_ɪ_d_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]
Related words: stoning people, stoning, ancient stoning, why people are stoned, stone age, history of stoning
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Synonyms for Lapidation:
n.
• act (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)Other synonyms:
• Other relevant words (noun):- chair,
- bloodshed,
- hanging,
- shooting,
- guillotine,
- martyrdom,
- gallows,
- slaying,
- gore,
- dispatch,
- hot seat,
- sacrifice,
- destruction,
- fusillade,
- garrote,
- execution,
- poisoning,
- gas chamber,
- rope,
- euthanasia,
- immolation,
- strangling,
- bloodletting,
- bane,
- capital punishment,
- burning,
- electrocution,
- slaughter,
- extermination,
- kill,
- crucifixion,
- strangulation,
- hemlock,
- blood.
How to use "Lapidation" in context?
Lapidation is a form of capital punishment that involves the execution of a person by being forced to walk on hot coals or metal rods laid on the ground. The person's clothes are then burned off, often leaving them naked and in agony.
Paraphrases for Lapidation:
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Noun, singular or mass
stoning.
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Noun, singular or mass
Homophones for Lapidation:
- liftman, lepidium, lavation, leviathan, labdanum, libation, love-potion, lilliputian, life-time, loved one, lipoidaemia, lofoten, lifetime, leptotene, lobotomy, lipoidemia, levitation, Laputan, lipidemia, lipidaemia, lepton, live down.
Hyponym for Lapidation:
n.
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act
corporal punishment.
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act
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