1. A form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope
   - strappado

Type of: torture, torturing

• persiflage
• persimmon
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• person
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• person of color
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• persona grata
• persona non grata
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