send to the scaffold

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send to the scaffold

verb sends to the scaffold · sending to the scaffold · sent to the scaffold

To sentence to be hanged. The unfortunate widow of Louis XVI. was the first who was sent to the scaffold by the sanguinary tribunal of the revolution.
Similar: forhang, Guy Fawkes, hang, ketch, send to the scaffold, scrag, stretch, string up, truss, tuck up
To cause someone to be condemned to be hanged. On the other hand, how could the peerage — which had been the support of the now subverted throne, and which, perhaps, had secretly shared its hopes and its delirium — how could it escape public disgrace, if, too obedient to popular malice, a malice which had been accumulating since 1815, it sent to

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@misc{send_to_the_scaffold_2026,
  title = {send to the scaffold},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/send%20to%20the%20scaffold},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}