English noun: putting to death | |||
1. | putting to death (act) the act of terminating a life | ||
Synonyms | kill, killing | ||
Broader (hypernym) | conclusion, ending, termination | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | asphyxiation, beheading, coup de grace, death, deathblow, decapitation, despatch, dispatch, electrocution, euthanasia, fell, genocide, homicide, mercy killing, poisoning, race murder, racial extermination, ritual killing, sacrifice, self-annihilation, self-destruction, slaughter, suffocation, suicide | ||