"lapidate" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈlæpɪˌdeɪt/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lapidate.wav [Southern-England] Forms: lapidates [present, singular, third-person], lapidating [participle, present], lapidated [participle, past], lapidated [past]
Etymology: From Latin lapidātus, past participle of lapidō (“throw stones at”), from lapis (“stone”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|lapidātus}} Latin lapidātus, {{m|la|lapidō||throw stones at}} lapidō (“throw stones at”), {{m|la|lapis||stone}} lapis (“stone”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} lapidate (third-person singular simple present lapidates, present participle lapidating, simple past and past participle lapidated)
  1. (transitive, law) To throw stones or other objects at, as punishment, sometimes until death. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Law, Violence Translations (stone to death): քարկոծել (kʿarkocel) (Armenian), пребивам с камъни (prebivam s kamǎni) (Bulgarian), lapidar (Catalan), stenigen (Dutch), ŝtonmortigi (Esperanto), kivittää (Finnish), lapider (French), lapidare (Italian), lapido (Latin), kamienować [imperfective] (Polish), ukamienować [perfective] (Polish), taşlamak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-lapidate-en-verb-Vsczt4gl Disambiguation of Violence: 79 21 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 95 5 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 92 8 Topics: law Disambiguation of 'stone to death': 100 0
  2. (transitive, figurative) To hurl insults at. Tags: figuratively, transitive Translations (to hurl insults): soimata (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-lapidate-en-verb--kRfLW2b Disambiguation of 'to hurl insults': 9 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: throw stones until death [stone, masonry, construction, manufacturing, business] Related terms: dilapidate, lapidarian, lapidary, lapidation, lapidify, lapillus

Inflected forms

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