PUTTING TO DEATH

I. (noun)

Meaning:

The act of terminating a life

Synonyms:

kill; killing; putting to death

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("putting to death" is a kind of...):

conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "putting to death"):

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))

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)