What does burning at the stake mean?

burning at the stake means "execution by fire".

What is another word for burning at the stake?

Close synonyms include burning. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is burning at the stake a common word?

burning at the stake is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Burning at the stake — meaning and 1 synonym

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
execution by fire
Synonymsburning
Broaderexecution
Narrowerauto-da-fe

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What does burning at the stake mean?: burning at the stake means "execution by fire".
What is another word for burning at the stake?: Close synonyms include burning. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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