Definition of putting to death Putting to death
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What does putting to death mean?
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| putting to death - the act of terminating a life | ||
| killing, kill | ||
| ending, termination, conclusion the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending" | ||
| coup de grace, deathblow the blow that kills (usually mercifully) | ||
| death the act of killing; "he had two deaths on his conscience" | ||
| 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 the act of sending off something | ||
| fell the act of felling something (as a tree) | ||
| self-annihilation, self-destruction, suicide the act of destroying yourself; "his insistence was pure self-destruction" | ||
| 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 (baseball) an out that advances the base runners | ||
| electrocution killing by electric shock | ||
| beheading, decapitation killing by cutting off the head | ||
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