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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person; "the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair" [syn: electric chair, chair, death chair, hot seat]
2: a difficult position where you are subjected to stress and criticism

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1925 1. slang electric chair 2. a position of uneasiness, embarrassment, or anxiety

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you are in the hot seat, you are responsible for making important and difficult decisions. (INFORMAL) He is to remain in the hot seat as chief executive. PHRASE: usu in/into PHR

Moby Thesaurus

ax, beheading, block, burning, capital punishment, cross, crucifixion, death chair, death chamber, decapitation, decollation, defenestration, drop, electric chair, electrocution, execution, fusillade, gallows, gallows-tree, garrote, gas chamber, gassing, gibbet, guillotine, halter, hanging, hemlock, hemp, hempen collar, judicial murder, lapidation, lethal chamber, maiden, necktie party, noose, poisoning, rope, scaffold, shooting, stake, stoning, strangling, strangulation, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, tree