"putting to death" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

is a type of: conclusion, ending, termination - the act of ending something
subtypes:
- 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
same as: kill, killing