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give someone the chair en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (US, idiomatic) To sentence a person to execution by means of the electric chair.
    • Joseph O'Dell, convicted of a brutal rape and murder, was sentenced to death after a Virginia prosecutor told the jury that if they didn't give him the chair, he'd one day get out and be free to kill again. 1997 July 7, Sidney Zion, “High Court Takes Low Road to Justice”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 03 Mar 2009:

Forms

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gives someone the chair Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
giving someone the chair Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
given someone the chair Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
gave someone the chair Tense=Past lexicographic