go to the scaffold in English

Forms: goes to the scaffold [present, singular, third-person], going to the scaffold [participle, present], went to the scaffold [past], gone to the scaffold [participle, past] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Head templates: {{en-verb|go<goes,,went,gone> to the scaffold}} go to the scaffold (third-person singular simple present goes to the scaffold, present participle going to the scaffold, simple past went to the scaffold, past participle gone to the scaffold)

Inflected forms

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    {
      "form": "goes to the scaffold",
      "tags": [
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        "singular",
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    },
    {
      "form": "going to the scaffold",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went to the scaffold",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone to the scaffold",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
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        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> to the scaffold"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Nigel Kelly, Rosemary Rees, Jane Shuter, Britain 1750-1900, page 83:",
          "text": "More and more people went to the scaffold as the Terror tightened its grip.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be executed by hanging."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_to_the_scaffold-en-verb-JPidyarF",
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        [
          "hanging",
          "hanging"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To be executed by hanging."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dance on nothing"
        },
        {
          "word": "die by hanging"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "go to the scaffold"
}

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes to the scaffold",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going to the scaffold",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went to the scaffold",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone to the scaffold",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> to the scaffold"
      },
      "expansion": "go to the scaffold (third-person singular simple present goes to the scaffold, present participle going to the scaffold, simple past went to the scaffold, past participle gone to the scaffold)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "verb",
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        "English multiword terms",
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        {
          "ref": "1998, Nigel Kelly, Rosemary Rees, Jane Shuter, Britain 1750-1900, page 83:",
          "text": "More and more people went to the scaffold as the Terror tightened its grip.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be executed by hanging."
      ],
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        [
          "execute",
          "execute"
        ],
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          "hanging",
          "hanging"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To be executed by hanging."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "dance on nothing"
        },
        {
          "word": "die by hanging"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "go to the scaffold"
}

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"go to the scaffold" meaning in English

Verb

Inflected forms