draw and quarter

English

Verb

draw and quarter (third-person singular simple present draws and quarters, present participle drawing and quartering, simple past drew and quartered, past participle drawn and quartered)

(transitive, historical) To execute (someone) by castration, disembowelling, beheading and quartering.
(transitive, figurative) To severely punish or criticize someone.

Derived terms

hang, draw and quarter

Translations

то execute a person

Dutch: vierendelen (nl)
Finnish: teloittaa repimällä ja paloittelemalla
French: écarteler (fr)
Italian: squartare (it)
Polish: ćwiartować impf, poćwiartować pf
Russian: четвертова́ть (ru) (četvertovátʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: рашчеречити

Roman: raščerečiti (sh)

See also

Hanged, drawn, and quartered on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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