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Definition of Put to death
1. Verb. Kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment. "They want to put to death the prisoners "; "In some states, criminals are executed"
Generic synonyms: Kill, Penalise, Penalize, Punish
Specialized synonyms: Crucify, Burn, Hang, String Up
Related verbs: Execute
Derivative terms: Executing, Execution
Definition of Put to death
1. Verb. To kill as punishment for capital crimes; to execute. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Put To Death
Literary usage of Put to death
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Edward Chauncey Baldwin (1906)
"Accordingly, the forger was put Death; the utterer of a bad note was put to Death;
the unlawful opener of a letter was put to Death; the purloiner of forty ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"Without a witness, without a trial, and without an opportunity of defence, Magnus,
with four thousand of his supposed accomplices, were put to death. ..."
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