strapado

1. 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

   Synonymsstrappado

   Broadertorture

Other forms of strapado

plural

strapadoes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about strapado

What does strapado mean?

strapado means "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".

How many syllables are in strapado?

strapado has 3 syllables: stra-pa-do. The stress falls on "stra".

What is another word for strapado?

Close synonyms include strappado. 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 strapado a common word?

strapado is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.