"draw and quarter" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: draws and quarters [present, singular, third-person], drawing and quartering [participle, present], drew and quartered [past], drawn and quartered [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|draw<,,drew,drawn> and quarter<>}} draw and quarter (third-person singular simple present draws and quarters, present participle drawing and quartering, simple past drew and quartered, past participle drawn and quartered)
  1. (transitive, historical) To execute (someone) by castration, disembowelling, beheading and quartering. Tags: historical, transitive Categories (topical): Death, Law Derived forms: hang, draw and quarter Translations (то execute a person): vierendelen (Dutch), teloittaa repimällä ja paloittelemalla (Finnish), écarteler (French), squartare (Italian), ćwiartować [imperfective] (Polish), poćwiartować [perfective] (Polish), четвертова́ть (četvertovátʹ) (Russian), рашчеречити [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), raščerečiti [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-draw_and_quarter-en-verb-BtS6lS9O Disambiguation of Death: 85 15 Disambiguation of Law: 86 14 Categories (other): English coordinated pairs Disambiguation of English coordinated pairs: 68 32 Disambiguation of 'то execute a person': 98 2
  2. (transitive, figurative) To severely punish or criticize someone. Tags: figuratively, transitive
    Sense id: en-draw_and_quarter-en-verb-dnM40Kc2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 66 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 37 63 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 40 60

Inflected forms

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