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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

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