capital punishment

Main Entry:
capital punishment []
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: death penalty
Synonyms: death sentence, death warrant, execution, extreme penalty, judicial murder
Notes: corporal punishment, from Latin corpus 'body,' means 'bodily'; capital punishment originally involved losing one's head, from Latin capit- 'head'
Main Entry: killing
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: murder
Synonyms: assassination, bloodshed, bumping off, capital punishment, carnage, execution, extermination, homicide, manslaughter, massacre, slaughter, slaying
Main Entry: lynching
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hanging
Synonyms: capital punishment, execution, mob justice, stringing up, the gallows, vigilante justice
Main Entry: death penalty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: execution of a condemned person
Synonyms: capital punishment, death sentence, death warrant, execution, judicial execution, judicial murder, legalized killing
Related Words
Main Entry: killing
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
bloodstained, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody, cruentous, cynegetic, deadly, deathly, ensanguined, fatal, gory, halieutic, homicidal, internecine, killing, lethal, lethiferous, mortal, mortiferous, murderous, piscatorial, piscatory, red, sanguinolent, sicarious, slaughterous, sporting, suicidal, unhealthy, venatic
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Destruction of life; violent death] Killing.
Category: 1. Vitality; vitality in general
Synonyms:
-nouns
killing; homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion; effusion of blood; blood, bloodshed; gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery; battue., massacre; fusillade, noyade; Thuggism., deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus; execution (capital punishment); judicial murder; martydom., butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur; guet-a-pens; gallows, executioner (punishment); maneater, apache, hatchet man [U.S.], highbinder [U.S.]., regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide., suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath; immolation, auto da fe, holocaust., suffocation, strangulation, garrote; hanging; lapidation., deadly weapon (arms); Aceldama., [Destruction of animals] slaughtering; phthiozoics; sport, sporting; the chase, venery; hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing; pig-sticking; sportsman, huntsman, fisherman; hunter, Nimrod; slaughterhouse, shambles, abattoir., fatal accident, violent death, casuality.
-verbs
kill, put to death, slay, shed blood; murder, assassinate, butcher, slaughter, victimize, immolate; massacre; take away life, deprive of life; make away with, put an end to; despatch, dispatch; burke, settle, do for., strangle, garrote, hang, throttle, choke, stifle, suffocate, stop the breath, smother, asphyxiate, drown., saber; cut down, cut to pieces, cut the throat; jugulate; stab, run through the body, bayonet, eviscerate; put to the sword, put to the edge of the sword., shoot dead; blow one's brains out; brain, knock on the head; stone, lapidate; give a deathblow; deal a deathblow; give a quietus, give a coup de grâce., behead, bowstring, electrocute, gas (execute)., hunt, shoot., cut off, nip in the bud, launch into eternity, send to one's last account, sign one's death warrant, strike the death knell of., give no quarter, pour out blood like water; decimate; run amuck; wade knee deep in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood., die a violent death, welter in one's blood; dash out one's brains, blow out one's brains; commit suicide; kill oneself, make away with oneself, put an end to oneself, put an end to it all.
-adjectives
killing; murderous, slaughterous; sanguinary, sanguinolent; blood-stained, bloodthirsty; homicidal, red handed; bloody, bloody minded; ensanguined, gory., mortal, fatal, lethal; dead, deadly; mortiferous, lethiferous; unhealthy; internecine; suicidal., sporting; piscatorial, piscatory.
-adverbs
in at the death.
-phrases
"assassination has never changed the history of the world" [Disraeli].
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