Bastinado (Verb)
Meaning
Beat somebody on the soles of the feet.
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- The torturers decided to bastinado the captive spy as punishment for not revealing sensitive information.
- In some ancient cultures, bastinado was a common form of punishment that left no visible marks of injury.
- The authorities bastinado the prisoner for hours in an attempt to extract a false confession.
- The victim was bastinado repeatedly until he finally agreed to sign the false statement.
- During the interrogation, the agents chose to bastinado the suspect in a desperate bid to crack the code.