the stakeSCa post to which a person was tied in former times before being killed by burning 〔旧时的〕火刑柱 Suspected witches were burnt at the stake. 被怀疑是女巫的人被烧死在火刑柱上。
burnt at the stake• Refusing to recant his doctrines as heretical, he was condemned to be burnt at the stake at Konstanz.• Governor Dulcitius had her sisters burnt at the stake.• He was then burnt at the stake.
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