"break on the wheel" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: breaks on the wheel [present, singular, third-person], breaking on the wheel [participle, present], broke on the wheel [past], broken on the wheel [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|break<,,broke,broken> on the wheel}} break on the wheel (third-person singular simple present breaks on the wheel, present participle breaking on the wheel, simple past broke on the wheel, past participle broken on the wheel)
  1. (transitive) To fasten (a criminal etc.) to a wheel and break his limbs or beat him to death. Tags: transitive Translations (to execute by beating): radbraken (Dutch), teilata (Finnish), rouer (French), rädern (German), łamać kołem [imperfective] (Polish), trage pe roată (Romanian), колесова́ть (kolesovátʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), колесува́ти (kolesuváty) [imperfective, perfective] (Ukrainian)

Inflected forms

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        "(transitive) To fasten (a criminal etc.) to a wheel and break his limbs or beat him to death."
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          "sense": "to execute by beating",
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          "sense": "to execute by beating",
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          "sense": "to execute by beating",
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      "sense": "to execute by beating",
      "word": "radbraken"
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      "sense": "to execute by beating",
      "word": "teilata"
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      "sense": "to execute by beating",
      "word": "rouer"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to execute by beating",
      "word": "rädern"
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      "sense": "to execute by beating",
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      "sense": "to execute by beating",
      "word": "trage pe roată"
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      "sense": "to execute by beating",
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        "perfective"
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      "word": "колесова́ть"
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      "word": "колесува́ти"
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