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Verb pillory has 3 senses
- pillory, gibbet - expose to ridicule or public scorn
--1 is one way to expose, exhibit, display
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- pillory - punish by putting in a pillory
--2 is one way to punish, penalize, penalise
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- savage, pillory, crucify - criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
--3 is one way to knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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