What does put to death mean?

put to death means "kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment".

What is another word for put to death?

Close synonyms include execute. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is put to death a common word?

put to death is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

put to death — meaning, pronunciation and definition

verb

1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment
“In some states, criminals are executed”
Synonymsexecute
Broaderkill punish
Narrowercrucify burn hang

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