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necklacing

necklacing is the present participle and gerund of necklace.

Meaning of necklace

Verb

necklace (third-person singular simple present necklaces, present participle necklacing, simple past and past participle necklaced)

  1. (South Africa) To informally execute by necklacing; by setting on fire a petrol-filled rubber tyre which has been put around the bound victim's neck.
    • 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...May 29 2003, The Star

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Noun

necklacing (plural necklacings)

  1. (South Africa) A method of informal execution using a burning necklace (petrol filled tyre); in which a rubber tyre is filled with petrol, placed around the victim's chest and arms, and set on fire.
    • It is impossible to fully capture the impact of necklacings on South African communities during the mid-1980s. However, it is clear that necklacings united especially the black youth in their liberation struggle.1998, Elirea Bornman, René Van Eeden, Marie Wentzel, Violence in South Africa: A Variety of Perspectives, page 167

Forms of necklacing

pluralnecklacings

Questions about necklacing

What does necklacing mean?
Necklacing means a method of informal execution using a burning necklace (petrol filled tyre); in which a rubber tyre is filled with petrol, placed around the victim's chest and arms, and set on fire.
What is necklacing the present participle and gerund of?
Necklacing is the present participle and gerund of necklace.
What part of speech is necklacing?
Necklacing is a noun.
What is the plural of necklacing?
The plural of necklacing is necklacings.

Words near necklacing in the dictionary

  1. necklacelike
  2. necklacer
  3. necklacers
  4. necklaces
  5. necklaceweed
  6. necklacing
  7. necklacings
  8. neckland
  9. necklands
  10. neckless
  11. necklessness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: necklacing (page history and authors); necklace (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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