putting to death

1. 1.

   the act of terminating a life

   Synonymskillingkill

   Broadertermination

   Narrowerdeathblowdeatheuthanasiahomicidedispatchfellsuicideslaughterpoisoningsuffocation

Questions about putting to death

What does putting to death mean?

putting to death means "the act of terminating a life".

What is another word for putting to death?

Close synonyms include killing, kill. 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 putting to death a common word?

putting 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.