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lethal injection

lethal injection noun: a means of execution or of euthanasia in which a person is injected with a fatal dose of drugs.

Noun

lethal injection (countable and uncountable, plural lethal injections)

  1. A means of execution or of euthanasia in which a person is injected with a fatal dose of drugs.
    • Reggie Clemons has one last chance to save his life. After 19 years on death row in Missouri for the murder of two young women, he has been granted a final opportunity to persuade a judge that he should be spared execution by lethal injection.2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian

Forms of lethal injection

plurallethal injections

Questions about lethal injection

What does lethal injection mean?
Lethal injection means a means of execution or of euthanasia in which a person is injected with a fatal dose of drugs.
What part of speech is lethal injection?
Lethal injection is a noun.
What is the plural of lethal injection?
The plural of lethal injection is lethal injections.

Words near lethal injection in the dictionary

  1. lethal congenital contracture syndrome
  2. lethal dose
  3. lethal doses
  4. lethal gene
  5. lethal genes
  6. lethal injection
  7. lethal injections
  8. lethal time
  9. lethal white syndrome
  10. lethal yellowing
  11. lethal zone

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