string up

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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.

To kill by hanging, especially to lynch

After years of brutal repression, any member of Saddam's palace guard stands to be strung up from the nearest lamppost by a vengeful Iraqi populace.

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..

To string someone up means to kill them by hanging them. Guards rushed into his cell and strung him up
add as if on a string; "string these ideas together"; "string up these songs and you'll have a musical"
kill by hanging; "The murdered was hanged on Friday"
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