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PUTTING TO DEATH
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of terminating a life
Synonyms:
kill; killing; putting to death
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("putting to death" is a kind of...):
conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "putting to death"):
coup de grace; deathblow (the blow that kills (usually mercifully))
death (the act of killing)
euthanasia; mercy killing (the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness))
homicide (the killing of a human being by another human being)
despatch; dispatch (killing a person or animal)
fell (the act of felling something (as a tree))
self-annihilation; self-destruction; suicide (the act of killing yourself)
slaughter (the killing of animals (as for food))
poisoning (the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill)
asphyxiation; suffocation (killing by depriving of oxygen)
ritual killing; sacrifice (the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity)
electrocution (killing by electric shock)
beheading; decapitation (killing by cutting off the head)
genocide; race murder; racial extermination (systematic killing of a racial or cultural group)
