GALLOWS Synonyms

• the event of dying or departure from life

• the personification of death

• the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism

• the absence of life or state of being dead

• the time when something ends

• the time at which life ends; continuing until dead

• a final state

• the act of killing

• putting a condemned person to death

• the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it

• (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer

• (law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable

• a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out

• the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order

• unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being

• an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant

• decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window

• a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead

• the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)

• a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose

• a loop formed in a cord or rope by means of a slipknot; it binds tighter as the cord or rope is pulled

• make a noose in or of

• secure with a noose

• a strong line

• street names for flunitrazepam

• catch with a lasso

• fasten with a rope

• a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)

• a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers

• provide with a scaffold for support

• English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)

• a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

• a figure that branches from a single root

• force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape

• plant with trees

• chase an animal up a tree

• stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree

• putting a condemned person to death