Uttal

  • US:
    • IPA: /ˈnɛkləs/
Översättning
Substantiv
1.gerdanlık
2.kolye

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. An article of jewelry that is worn around the neck, most often made of a string of precious metal, pearls, gems, beads or shells, and sometimes having a pendant attached.
  2. (figuratively) Anything resembling a necklace in shape.
  3. (South Africa) A method of informal execution in which a rubber tyre is filled with petrol, placed around the victim's chest and arms, and set on fire.

Verb

  1. (South Africa) To informally execute by setting on fire a petrol-filled rubber tyre which has been put around the bound victim's neck.

Exempel

  • a necklace of coral islands
  • Seven people have been arrested in connection with Saturday's "necklace" murder of three men in the Tjokville informal settlement at Jeffrey's Bay.
  • Several of the alledged witches in Apel and GaNkaone were also subjected to a necklace execution
  • In the fluidly unfolding events of a necklace murder, was there time and space to stop the killing?
  • Frustrated residents tied the hands of two suspected criminals, put tyres around their necks and then set them alight. In a manifestation of growing disillusionment with the criminal justice system, residents of Bramfischerville, west of Johannesburg, on Tuesday abducted and necklaced two suspected burglars.
  • Inkatha members have been hacked to death and necklaced, and their houses have been destroyed
  • The first instance of necklacing occurred in March 1985 in the Eastern Cape township of KwaNobuhle.

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticipnecklaced
Imperfektnecklaced
Presensparticipnecklacing
Pluralnecklaces
Tredje person singular indicativ presensnecklaces

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