put to death
English
Verb
put to death (third-person singular simple present puts to death, present participle putting to death, simple past and past participle put to death)
- To kill as punishment for capital crimes; to execute.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Deuteronomy 24:16:
- The fathers shall not bee put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: euery man shall be put to death for his owne sinne.
- 2012 August 21, Pilkington, Ed, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:
- One of Clemons's three co-defendants has already been executed, and Clemons himself came within 12 days of being put to death in 2009.
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Synonyms
- execute
Hypernyms
- kill
- murder/murther
- slay
- slaughter
Translations
to kill as punishment — see execute