send to the scaffold

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To sentence to be hanged.
    — The unfortunate widow of Louis XVI. was the first who was sent to the scaffold by the sanguinary tribunal of the revolution.
  2. To cause someone to be condemned to be hanged.
    — On the other hand, how could the peerage — which had been the support of the now subverted throne, and which, perhaps, had secretly shared its hopes and its delirium — how could it escape public disgrace, if, too obedient to popular malice, a malice which had been accumulating since 1815, it sent to the scaffold the king's ministers, deputies, peers of France, men of their own rank and standard?

词形变化

sends to the scaffold present,singular,third-person sending to the scaffold participle,present sent to the scaffold participle,past sent to the scaffold past
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