Dictionary Entry
pillory
pillory is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it.
- 2transitive verb
To set in, or punish with, the pillory.
- 3transitive verb
Figuratively, to expose to public scorn.
- 4noun
a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the wrists and neck; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn
- 5verb
criticize harshly or violently
"The press savaged the new President"
"The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
- 6verb
punish by putting in a pillory
- 7verb
expose to ridicule or public scorn
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