putting to death

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noun

the act of terminating a life
• Syn:
killing, kill
• Derivationally related forms:
kill (for: kill), kill (for: killing)
• Hypernyms:
termination, ending, conclusion
• Hyponyms:
deathblow, coup de grace, death, euthanasia, mercy killing,
homicide, dispatch, despatch, fell, suicide, self-destruction,
self-annihilation, slaughter, poisoning, suffocation, asphyxiation, sacrifice,
sacrifice, electrocution, decapitation, beheading, genocide,
race murder, racial extermination