put to death

Verb

Meaning

kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

execute burke lynch gibbet butcher slay despatch kill killing destroy murder waste eliminate murdered massacre
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Antonyms

amnesty free create attempt release spare
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Hypernyms

kill punish penalize penalise

Hyponyms

burn hang crucify string up

Examples

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. Thomas Aquinas

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same. Ida B. Wells-Barnett

If forgers and other malefactors are forthwith condemned to death by the secular authorities, there is much more reason for heretics, as soon as they are convicted of heresy, to be not only excommunicated but even put to death. Thomas Aquinas

(The Republican plan would) make sure we bring down the cost of health care for all Americans and that ensures affordable access for all Americans and is pro-life because it will not put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government. Virginia Foxx

What meal is not expensive? That for which no animal is put to death. ... one participating of feeling, of seeing, of hearing, of imagination, and of intellection; which each animal hath received from Nature for the acquiring of what is agreeable to it, and the avoiding what is disagreeable. Plutarch

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death. John Hanning Speke

Close letter words and terms

put to bed put to bed with a shovel put to better use put to good use put to lie put to rest