Synonym of the word PIQUET

n. (card games) A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes,…

n. A stake driven into the ground.
n. (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the…
n. A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
n. (military) Soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance…
n. A sentry. Can be used figuratively.
n. A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the…
n. (card games) The card game piquet.
v. (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
v. (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
v. (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
v. (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
v. (obsolete, transitive) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

n. Intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony.
n. (chiefly literary) The "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships.
n. (colloquial) (often as "absolute torture") stage fright, severe embarrassment.
v. (transitive) To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).

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