string up

Verb

1. 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. - 1911, Fergus Hume, chapter 8, in Red Money:
   • 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. - 2003 February 17, J. Barry, E. Thomas, “Boots, Bytes and Bombs”, in...

   Synonyms: hang scrag forhang Guy Fawkes ketch send to the scaffold stretch string up truss tuck up

2. 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." - 1818, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 13, in Rob Roy:

   Synonyms: 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 trine truss wag hemp

3. 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. - 2007 March 7, Brigid Schulte, “Escaping a Painful Past To Find a Shaky Future”, in Washington Post, retrieved 24 Jan...
4. To concatenate; to link in a line.
   • to string up a sentence