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burning at the stake

DEFINITIONS OF: burning at the stake

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n execution by fire

Synonyms:
burning
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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