Firing Squad

Definition: Firing Squad

Firing Squad

Noun

1. A squad formed to fire volleys at a military funeral or to carry out a military execution.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Firing Squad

Punishment

Capital punishment; execution; lethal injection; the gas chamber; hanging;Verb: electrocution, rail-riding, scarpines; decapitation, decollation; garrotte, garrotto; crucifixion, impalement; firing squad; martyrdom; auto-da-fe; noyade; happy dispatch.

Be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty; be hanged; come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing, twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes; be rightly served; be electrocuted, fry, ride the lightning; face the firing squad.

Scourge

Scaffold; block, ax, guillotine; stake; cross; gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring; death chair, electric chair; gas chamber; lethal injection; firing squad; mecate.

Crosswords: Firing Squad

Books

• America at the crossroads : Parthenon, yes, firing squad, no (reference)

• Hang by the Neck: The Legal Use of the Scaffold and Noose, Gibbet, Stake and Firing Squad from Colonial Times to the Present (reference)

• The circular firing squad (reference)

• The firing squad, a novel (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Firing Squad [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

U. S. Base Hospital Number 3, Vauclaire, France. : Firing squad, first funeral at hospital.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Ecco, signor Pug! the execution : Pug looked down and saw the firing squad beneath him.Credit: Library of Congress.

Liam Mellowes : a great Fenian who saw the poor as the freedom force of the nation, as Tone did : shot by firing squad, Mountjoy jail, Dec. 8, 1922.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Human Rights

Saudi Arabia

Punishments include flogging, amputation, and execution by beheading, stoning, or firing squad. (references)

Korea

According to the AFP, seven persons in this group were executed by firing squad before thousands of spectators. (references)

Iran

He reported having been taken on numerous occasions before a firing squad, told to prepare for death, only to be allowed to live. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "firing squad": execute by firing squad ♦ face the firing squad. Additional references.

Albanian

skuadër pushkatimi (firing party). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرقة إطلاق النار, ‏زمرة مكلفة بتنفيذ حكم إعدام رميا بالرصاص. (various references)

Bulgarian 

команда за разстрелване (firing party). (various references)

Czech

popravèí èeta. (various references)

Dutch

dood met de kogel (execution by a firing squad). (various references)

Finnish

surmaaminen ampumalla (execution by a firing squad), kuolema ampumalla (execution by a firing squad), ampumalla tapahtuva teloittaminen (execution by a firing squad). (various references)

French

peloton d'exécution (firing pin). (various references)

German

füsilieren (execute by firing squad, shoot dead), Tod durch Erschiessen (execution by a firing squad). (various references)

Greek 

εκτελεστικό απόσπασμα. (various references)

Hungarian

kivégzőosztag (firing party, firing platoon), díszlövést leadó szakasz (firing party, firing platoon). (various references)

Italian

fucilazione (execution by a firing squad). (various references)

Manx

possan lhiggee. (various references)

Pig Latin

iringfay adsquay

Portuguese

carreira de tiro (rifle range, shooting range). (various references)

Russian 

расстрельная команда (firing party). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

streljački vod. (various references)

Spanish

pelotón de inicio, pelotón de ejecución (firing party). (various references)

Swedish

exekutionspluton (firing party). (various references)

Turkish

tören kıtası (firing party), idam mangası (firing party). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: fairings, squaring, squiring.

-4 letters: airings, arising, audings, darings, durians, fadings, fairing, faquirs, farding, firings, gradins, guisard, indusia, qindars, quiring, raiding, raising, ridings, siganid, surfing, ungirds.

-5 letters: aiding, airing, auding, daring, dinars, dingus, drains, durian, during, fading, fagins, faqirs, faquir, faring, firing, frauds, frigid, furans, fusain, fusing, gradin, gradus, grains, grands, grinds, guards, indris.

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