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Word | Strappado |
Urdu Meaning | رسي باندھ کر لٹکانے کي سزا |
torture in which a person's hands and tied behind their back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists and that allowed to drop until their fall is checked by the rope / A military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope, by which means a limb was often dislocated., | |
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Synonyms | strapado, confinement, gantlet, gauntlet, hard labor, imprisonment, incarceration, jailing, keelhauling, martyrdom, picketing, rack, torment, torture, |
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