putting to death

Other forms: puttings to death

Definitions of putting to death

1. noun

   the act of terminating a life
   synonyms: kill, killing

   types:

   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

   type of:

   conclusion, ending, termination

   the act of ending something