pillories

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İngilizce - İngilizce
third-person singular of pillory
plural of pillory
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A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation
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To criticize harshly
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To subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse
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To put in a pillory
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a wooden framework in which an offender is fastened to boards and is exposed to public scorn
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{v} to punish with or put in the pillory
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a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the neck and hands; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn
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expose to ridicule or public scorn
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To set in, or punish with, the pillory
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If someone is pilloried, a lot of people, especially journalists, criticize them and make them look stupid. A man has been forced to resign as a result of being pilloried by some of the press. = ridicule. if someone is pilloried, they are publicly criticized by a lot of people, especially in newspapers etc. pillories a wooden frame with holes for someone's head and hands to be locked into, used in the past as a way of publicly punishing someone the stocks stock (9)
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To subject someone to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse
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criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
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Figuratively, to expose to public scorn
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a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the neck and hands; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn punish by putting in a pillory expose to ridicule or public scorn
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{i} stocks, device that holds a prisoner by the head and hands (used as a form of public punishment); instrumentality to expose a person to public derision
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A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it
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{f} lock up by the head and hands in stocks; condemn publicly, punish publicly
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punish by putting in a pillory
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To put someone in a pillory