string up

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string up

verb strings up · stringing up · strung up

idiomatic, transitive 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.
Similar: hang, scrag, forhang, Guy Fawkes, ketch, send to the scaffold, stretch, string up, truss, tuck up
idiomatic, intransitive, obsolete 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."
Similar: hang, swing, dance on a rope, dance on nothing, dance the hempen jig, dance the Tyburn jig, dance upon nothing, dangle, ride a horse foaled by an acorn, stretch hemp, string up, take a ride to Tyburn
idiomatic, transitive 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.
idiomatic, transitive To concatenate; to link in a line. to string up a sentence

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@misc{string_up_2026,
  title = {string up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/string%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}