| 单词 | putting to death |
| 释义 | putting to death (once / 40478 pages) n WORD FAMILY putting to death: puttings to death USAGE EXAMPLESIran is one of the world’s leading practitioners of capital punishment, putting to death an estimated 1,000 people last year, many for drug offenses. Los Angeles Times(Sep 28, 2016) After putting to death some of the leaders in the revolt, he reorganized the civil government. Faris, John T. (John Thomson), Historic Shrines of America—Being t...(2012) This inconstant people, like many others, after putting to death the wisest man of his age, paid almost divine honors to his memory. Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn), From the Lakes of Killarney to the...(2012) n the act of terminating a life Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper kill, killing final solution the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945 Alamoa siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico Battle of the Little Bighorna battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command coup de grace, deathblow the blow that kills (usually mercifully) deaththe act of killing euthanasia, mercy killingthe act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness) homicidethe killing of a human being by another human being despatch, dispatchkilling a person or animal fellthe act of felling something (as a tree) self-annihilation, self-destruction, suicidethe act of killing yourself slaughterthe killing of animals (as for food) poisoningthe act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill asphyxiation, suffocationkilling by depriving of oxygen ritual killing, sacrificethe act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity electrocutionkilling by electric shock beheading, decapitationkilling by cutting off the head genocide, race murder, racial exterminationsystematic killing of a racial or cultural group honor killingan ancient tradition still sometimes observed; a male member of the family kills a female relative for tarnishing the family image manslaughterhomicide without malice aforethought execution, murder, slayingunlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being assisted suicidesuicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible felo-de-sean act of deliberate self destruction hara-kiri, harakiri, harikari, seppukuritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society sutteethe act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband gassingthe deliberate act of poisoning some person or animal with gas shootingkilling someone by gunfire choking, strangling, strangulation, throttlingthe act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe hecatomba great sacrifice; an ancient Greek or Roman sacrifice of 100 oxen immolationkilling or offering as a sacrifice conclusion, ending, termination the act of ending something |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。