giảo

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Definition

1. Verb:
   • To execute by hanging; to hang (a criminal): This is a historical and legal term referring specifically to carrying out capital punishment by means of a noose or gallows. It is an archaic and formal term, not used in modern everyday conversation.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Tên phản bội bị kết án và xử giảo. (The traitor was sentenced and executed by hanging.)
  • Trong luật pháp cũ, tội này có thể bị giảo. (Under the old law, this crime was punishable by hanging.)

Advanced Usage

• "xử giảo": to sentence to death by hanging; to carry out a hanging execution.
  • Tòa án đã tuyên án xử giảo. (The court pronounced a sentence of death by hanging.)

Variants and Related Words

• Án giảo (n): a sentence of death by hanging.

  • Án giảo là hình phạt tối cao thời đó. (Death by hanging was the ultimate punishment at that time.)

• Tội giảo (n): a crime punishable by hanging.

  • Giết người là một tội giảo. (Murder was a hanging offense.)

Synonyms

• Execute by hanging: to put to death using a rope on a gallows.
• Hang: to kill by suspending by the neck (this is the direct, though less formal, equivalent).

Related Idioms

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verb

1. to hang (a criminal)