death warrant

Noun

Meaning

a warrant to execute the death sentence

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

damnation apocalypse mayday deathblow knell death knell quietus end of the world death penalty capital punishment end point coup de grace gibbeting avant-courier execution warrant

Antonyms

pity absolution commutation condonation

Hypernyms

warrant

Examples

The Sharon Plan is not a peace plan. It is a unilateral solution to be imposed by Israel.... A Palestinian leader who signs on to this surrender of land and rights would be signing his death warrant. Pat Buchanan

Early this morning, I signed my death warrant. Michael Collins

Almost everybody in the neighborhood had ''troubles,'' frankly localized and specified but only the chosen had ''complications.'' To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit. Edith Wharton

A Delhi court on Tuesday issued death warrant to all four convicts in the 2012 Delhi Nirbhaya gang-rape case. Source: Internet

A bloody brawl on the Champs Élysées thrusts Siegfried and Gus into the news, where a flawed report casts Siegfried as the Nazi leader’s murderer, sealing his death warrant. Source: Internet

Elizabeth signed her cousin's death warrant, Francis Edwards, S.J., Plots and plotters in the reign of Elizabeth I. (Dublin: Four Courts, 2002), p. 164. and on 8 February 1587, in front of 300 witnesses, Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed by beheading. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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