death penalty
death penalty noun: a punishment in which the offender is put to death by the state.
Noun
the death penalty (plural death penalties)
- A punishment in which the offender is put to death by the state.
- And if you would like one more fact about this worthy, he was responsible for an Act on the statute book abolishing the death penalty for cattle rustling.2021 September 22, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, in RAIL, number 940, page 71
- Joe Biden deserves the death penalty and Jonald Trump bad.2024 June 4, very tall bart, 0:09 from the start, in [YTP] Jordan Peterson confesses, spoken by Joe Biden (Joe Biden)
- Synonyms:
- capital punishment, execution, Texas justice
death penalty meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
death penalty in Hindi
- state punishment of death — see also capital punishment
- मृत्युदंड mŕtyudaṇḍ, महादण्द mahādaṇd, सज़ा-ए-मौत sazā-e-maut
death penalty in Tamil
- state punishment of death — see also capital punishment
- மரணதண்டனை maraṇataṇṭaṉai
death penalty in Urdu
- state punishment of death — see also capital punishment
- سَزائے مَوت sazāe maut
death penalty in Bengali
- state punishment of death — see also capital punishment
- মৃত্যুদণ্ড mrittudonḍo
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- death penalty in Sanskrit
- मृत्युदण्ड mṛtyudaṇḍa
- death penalty in Tagalog
- parusang kamatayan
- death penalty in Arabic
- إِعْدَام ʔiʕdām, عُقُوبَة الْإِعْدَام ʕuqūbat al-ʔiʕdām, عُقُوبَة الْمَوْت ʕuqūbat al-mawt
- death penalty in Malay
- hukuman mati
- death penalty in Indonesian
- hukuman mati
- death penalty in Thai
- โทษประหารชีวิต tôot-bprà-hǎan-chii-wít, ประหารชีวิต bprà-hǎan-chii-wít
- death penalty in Vietnamese
- án tử hình, tử hình
- death penalty in Myanmar
- သေဒဏ် sedan
Synonyms of death penalty
Forms of death penalty
| plural | death penalties |
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Origin of death penalty
From death + penalty.
Words formed from death penalty
Questions about death penalty
- What does death penalty mean?
- Death penalty means a punishment in which the offender is put to death by the state.
- What is death penalty in Hindi?
- Death penalty in Hindi is मृत्युदंड (mŕtyudaṇḍ), महादण्द (mahādaṇd), सज़ा-ए-मौत (sazā-e-maut). See Death penalty meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is death penalty?
- Death penalty is a noun.
- What is the plural of death penalty?
- The plural of death penalty is death penalties.
Words near death penalty in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: death penalty (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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