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Strappadoes
- noun - a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope
Strip Alert
- noun - a state of readiness for domestic defense aircraft; "the Air Force will keep fighters on strip alert at bases around the country"
Strix Aluco
- noun - reddish-brown European owl having a round head with black eyes
Stylisation
- noun - the act of stylizing; causing to conform to a particular style
Stylization
- noun - the act of stylizing; causing to conform to a particular style
Styracaceae
- noun - a widely distributed family of shrubs and trees of order Ebenales
Subarration
- - The ancient custom of betrothing by the bestowal, on the part of the man, of marriage gifts or tokens, as money, rings, or other presents, upon the woman.
Subcoracoid
- - Situated under the coracoid process of the scapula; as, the subcoracoid dislocation of the humerus.
Subjugating
- verb - make subservient; force to submit or subdue
- put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
- To conquer
Subjugation
- noun - forced submission to control by others
- the act of conquering
- the act of subjugating by cruelty; "the tyrant's oppression of the people"