death sentence

English

Noun

death sentence (plural death sentences)

1. (law) A decree that someone be put to death as a punishment for a crime; a sentence of execution.
   • 2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club‎^[1], archived from the original on 15 May 2019:

     Tyrion’s tears contain the symbolic weight of his whole life; he wouldn’t be here if not for Jaime, as he admits, and his last hope is to give the man who risked everything to help him survive the same chance. Tyrion knows it’s a death sentence from Daenerys to betray her in this way, but he no longer cares.

   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     Comrades, here and now I pronounce the death sentence upon Snowball.

2. (figurative) Anything that spells death.

   Having the Huntington's gene is a death sentence.

Derived terms

• anally inflicted death sentence

 

Translations

sentence

• Afrikaans: doodsvonnis
• Armenian: մահապատիժ (hy) (mahapatiž)
• Azerbaijani: ölüm cümləsi
• Bulgarian: смъртна присъда f (smǎrtna prisǎda)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 死刑 (zh) (sǐxíng)

• Danish: dødsdom c
• Dutch: doodstraf (nl) c, doodvonnis (nl) n
• Esperanto: mortkondamno
• Finnish: kuolemantuomio (fi)
• French: arrêt de mort (fr) m, sentence de mort f, condamnation à mort f
• Georgian: სასიკვდილო განაჩენი (sasiḳvdilo ganačeni)
• German: Todesurteil (de) n
• Greek: θανατική καταδίκη f (thanatikí katadíki), θανατική ποινή (el) f (thanatikí poiní)
• Hungarian: halálbüntetés (hu), halálos ítélet (hu) sg
• Icelandic: dauðadómur m
• Indonesian: hukuman mati (id), pidana mati (id)
• Japanese: 死刑判決 (しけいはんけつ, shikei hanketsu)
• Korean: 사형 선고 (ko) (sahyeong seon'go), 사형 언도 (sahyeong eondo)
• Kyrgyz: өлүм жазасы (ölüm jazası)
• Macedonian: смртна казна f (smrtna kazna)
• Odia: ପ୍ରାଣଦଣ୍ଡାଜ୍ଞା (or) (prāṇadaṇḍājñā)
• Polish: wyrok śmierci m
• Portuguese: pena de morte f
• Romanian: condamnare la moarte f, sentință la moarte f
• Russian: сме́ртный пригово́р m (smértnyj prigovór)
• Spanish: sentencia de muerte
• Swedish: dödsdom (sv) c
• Tajik: ҳукми қатл (hukm-i qatl)
• Telugu: మరణ శిక్ష (maraṇa śikṣa), మరణ దండన (maraṇa daṇḍana)
• Thai: โทษประหาร (thos̄ʹ prah̄ār)
• Turkish: ölüm cezası (tr)
• Ukrainian: сме́ртний ви́рок m (smértnyj výrok)
• Uzbek: o'lim jazosi