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)

1. To kill as punishment for capital crimes; to execute.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 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, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

Synonyms

• execute

Hypernyms

• kill
• slay
• slaughter

Coordinate terms

• murder/murther

Translations

to kill as punishment — see execute