💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Ride the lightning"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| give someone the chairverb | (chiefly US, idiomatic) To sentence a person to execution by means of the electric chair. |
| cooknoun | (cooking) A person who prepares food. |
| electrocuteverb | (transitive) To kill by electric shock. |
| die by hanging | — |
| lynchnoun | A surname from Irish. |
| die in one's shoesverb | To die by violence, especially by hanging. |
| groundnoun | The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground. |
| guillotinenoun | (historical, also figuratively) A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade which is dropped onto the neck of the person to be executed; also, execution using this machine. |
| lethal chambernoun | A gas chamber, especially one used for euthanizing animals. |
| electricuteverb | Misspelling of electrocute. [(transitive) To kill by electric shock.] |
| fulminatenoun | (chemistry) Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive. |
| thunderstrikenoun | The striking of lightning. |
| death ridenoun | A course of action, voluntarily entered into by at least the leading participant, which is (or appears) certain or very likely to result in death, failure, or defeat. |
| light upverb | (transitive) To illuminate, to bring light to something, to brighten. |
| burn someone at the stakeverb | (figuratively) To criticize (someone) publicly and vehemently; to cancel (someone). |
| put to the swordverb | (idiomatic) To execute, especially by using a sword. |
| hangverb | (intransitive) To be or remain suspended. |
| kill by hanging | — |
| stop leadverb | (US, slang, dated) To be killed by a bullet from a gun. |
| stiff | (of an object) Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible. |
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