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putting to death

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  • verb Present participle of put to death.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of terminating a life

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hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. conclusion
  2. ending
  3. termination

hyponyms (24)

Words more specific or concrete

  1. asphyxiation
  2. beheading
  3. coup de grace
  4. death
  5. deathblow
  6. decapitation
  7. despatch
  8. dispatch
  9. electrocution
  10. euthanasia
  11. fell
  12. genocide
  13. homicide
  14. mercy killing
  15. poisoning
  16. race murder
  17. racial extermination
  18. ritual killing
  19. sacrifice
  20. self-annihilation
  21. self-destruction
  22. slaughter
  23. suffocation
  24. suicide

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