ahorcar
A los residentes que trataban de huir de la batalla reciente los abatían a tiros, o ahorcaban como una advertencia a otros. | Residents trying to flee the recent fighting were shot, sometimes hanged as a warning to others. |
Los rancheros guardaban celosamente sus marcas de propiedad y en ocasiones se le disparaba o se ahorcaban a los hombres que robaban ganado o alteraban las marcas. | The ranchers jealously guarded their proprietary brands and men were sometimes shot or hanged for stealing cattle and altering the brands. |
Y sí, había tomado un poco de vino, pero vi cómo ahorcaban al marino. | And, yes, I'd had a few glasses of wine, but I saw a sailor being strangled. |
Es como cuando nos ahorcaban. Lo hacen de manera diferente ahora pero se reduce a la misma cosa, antes era la soga de linchamiento y ahora son los policías y los 50 balazos. | They do it different now—then it was the lynching rope, today it's the cops and 50 shots—but it comes down to the same thing. |
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