drown vs gibbet

drown

verb
  • To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed. 

  • To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid. 

  • To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. 

  • To inundate, submerge, overwhelm. 

  • To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items. 

gibbet

verb
  • To expose (someone) to ridicule or scorn. 

  • To execute (someone), or display (a body), on a gibbet. 

noun
  • An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display. 

  • The projecting arm of a crane, from which the load is suspended; the jib. 

  • A human-shaped structure made of iron bands designed to publicly display the corpse of an executed criminal. 

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