put to death

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put someone to death

to kill a person. The bomber will not be put to death, but he will spend the rest of his life in prison.

Usage notes: most often used to refer to legal punishment for murder

See also: death

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In the end he was banished, and finally put to death by the Emperor's order. A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context The egregious rustic put to death A bull by stopping of its breath: Disposed the carcass in a shed With fragrant herbs and branches spread. Actions and Reactions by Kipling, Rudyard View in context It is likely enough that, rooted in the woods of France and Norway, there were growing trees, when that sufferer was put to death, already marked by the Woodman, Fate, to come down and be sawn into boards, to make a certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history. A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context More results

References in classic literature

In the end he was banished, and finally put to death by the Emperor's order.

A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context

The egregious rustic put to death A bull by stopping of its breath: Disposed the carcass in a shed With fragrant herbs and branches spread.

Actions and Reactions by Kipling, Rudyard View in context

It is likely enough that, rooted in the woods of France and Norway, there were growing trees, when that sufferer was put to death, already marked by the Woodman, Fate, to come down and be sawn into boards, to make a certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history.

A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context

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