单词 | the stake |
释义 | the stake From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe stakethe stakeSCa post to which a person was tied in former times before being killed by burningburnt at the stake. Suspected witches were → stakeExamples from the Corpusburnt at the stake• Refusing to recant his doctrines as heretical, he was condemned to be burnt at the stake at Konstanz.• Governor Dulcitius had her sisters burnt at the stake.• He was then burnt at the stake. |
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