lapidate

lapidate — verb

  • lapidatepresent simple I / you / we / they
  • lapidates3rd person singular
  • lapidating-ing form
  • lapidatedpast simple

1. to throw stones at a person, usually as a public punishment that often causes se

1.動詞及物C2
釋義

to throw stones at a person, usually as a public punishment that often causes serious injury or death.

例句

In some ancient towns, a mob would lapidate a thief in the market square.

transitive: lapidate + [person]

Roya wrote a paper about why certain regimes still lapidate women for so-called moral crimes.

同義詞
  • stone

    the everyday verb for the same action; far more common in modern English.

  • execute

    general term for legal killing; only overlaps when lapidation is the chosen method.

文法句型

lapidate + [person]

用法筆記

Almost always used about historical, religious, or foreign-law contexts; rare in everyday modern English. The agent is typically a group (mob, crowd, soldiers) rather than one person.

常見錯誤

❌Hiro lapidated the wall with small rocks.
✅Hiro threw small rocks at the wall.
💡'lapidate' takes a person as object, not an inanimate target.
❌The boys lapidated each other for fun.
✅The boys threw stones at each other for fun.
💡'lapidate' is formal and implies punishment or execution, not play.