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单词 putting to death
释义
putting to death
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WORD FAMILY
putting to death: puttings to death
USAGE EXAMPLES
Iran 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
Alamo
a 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 Bighorn
a 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)
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
honor killing
an ancient tradition still sometimes observed; a male member of the family kills a female relative for tarnishing the family image
manslaughter
homicide without malice aforethought
execution, murder, slaying
unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
assisted suicide
suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible
felo-de-se
an act of deliberate self destruction
hara-kiri, harakiri, harikari, seppuku
ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society
suttee
the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband
gassing
the deliberate act of poisoning some person or animal with gas
shooting
killing someone by gunfire
choking, strangling, strangulation, throttling
the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe
hecatomb
a great sacrifice; an ancient Greek or Roman sacrifice of 100 oxen
immolation
killing or offering as a sacrifice
conclusion, ending, termination
the act of ending something
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