capital punishment
capital punishment noun: the practice of putting a person to death as a punishment for a crime.
Noun
capital punishment (countable and uncountable, plural capital punishments)
- The practice of putting a person to death as a punishment for a crime.
- Synonyms:
- death penalty
capital punishment meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
capital punishment in Hindi
- punishment by death — see also death penalty
- मृत्युदण्ड mŕtyudaṇḍ, महादण्ड mahādaṇḍ, सज़ा-ए-मौत sazā-e-maut
capital punishment in Tamil
- punishment by death — see also death penalty
- மரணதண்டனை maraṇataṇṭaṉai
capital punishment in Urdu
- punishment by death — see also death penalty
- سَزائے مَوت sazāe maut
capital punishment in Bengali
- punishment by death — see also death penalty
- মৃত্যুদণ্ড mrittudonḍo
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- capital punishment in Kannada
- ಮರಣದಂಡನೆ
- capital punishment in Sanskrit
- मृत्युदण्ड mṛtyudaṇḍa
- capital punishment in Tagalog
- parusang kamatayan
- capital punishment in Arabic
- إِعْدَام ʔiʕdām, عُقُوبَة الْإِعْدَام ʕuqūbat al-ʔiʕdām, عُقُوبَة الْمَوْت ʕuqūbat al-mawt
- capital punishment in Malay
- hukuman mati
- capital punishment in Indonesian
- hukuman mati
- capital punishment in Thai
- โทษประหารชีวิต tôot-bprà-hǎan-chii-wít, ประหารชีวิต bprà-hǎan-chii-wít
- capital punishment in Vietnamese
- tử hình
- capital punishment in Myanmar
- သေဒဏ် sedan
Synonyms of capital punishment
Forms of capital punishment
| plural | capital punishments |
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Origin of capital punishment
From the original meaning of capital (“relating to the head”); originally referring to executions by beheading or decapitating.
Questions about capital punishment
- What does capital punishment mean?
- Capital punishment means the practice of putting a person to death as a punishment for a crime.
- What is capital punishment in Hindi?
- Capital punishment in Hindi is मृत्युदण्ड (mŕtyudaṇḍ), महादण्ड (mahādaṇḍ), सज़ा-ए-मौत (sazā-e-maut). See Capital punishment meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is capital punishment?
- Capital punishment is a noun.
- What is the plural of capital punishment?
- The plural of capital punishment is capital punishments.
Words near capital punishment in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: capital punishment (page history and authors); capital punishment (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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