break on the wheel

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To fasten (a criminal etc.) to a wheel and break his limbs or beat him to death. transitive
    — Despite protesting his innocence under torture, the sexagenarian father was condemned by the Parlement in March 1762 to be broken on the wheel, a fate which he bore with stoical fortitude.

词形变化

breaks on the wheel present,singular,third-person breaking on the wheel participle,present broke on the wheel past broken on the wheel participle,past
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