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burn someone in effigyBurn a model of a person as a protest: the minister was burned in effigy...- In 1793 Tom Paine, the English author of the Rights of Man, which sought to justify the French Revolution, was burned in effigy in the Market Place.
- As colonists' anger over the Stamp Act built, a tax official was burned in effigy from the limbs of an elm estimated to be 120 years old.
- Figures representing the Mexican and US presidents were burned in effigy.
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