burning at the stake

Other forms: burnings at the stake

Definitions of burning at the stake
  1. noun
    execution by fire
    synonyms: burning
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    types:
    auto-da-fe
    the burning to death of heretics (as during the Spanish Inquisition)
    type of:
    capital punishment, death penalty, executing, execution
    putting a condemned person to death
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