what does put to death mean?
PUT TO DEATH as VERB
- Meaning
- kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment
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Usage Example(s)
- In some states, criminals are executed
Hypernyms(s) put to death is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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