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put to death

put to death verb: to kill as punishment for capital crimes; to execute.

Verb

put to death (third-person singular simple present puts to death, present participle putting to death, simple past and past participle put to death)

  1. To kill as punishment for capital crimes; to execute.
    • The fathers shall not bee put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: euery man shall be put to death for his owne sinne.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 24:16
    • One of Clemons's three co-defendants has already been executed, and Clemons himself came within 12 days of being put to death in 2009.2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2021
    Synonyms:
    execute

put to death meaning in Hindi, Urdu and Sanskrit

put to death in Hindi

to put to death, kill
मरवा डालना marvā ḍālnā

put to death in Urdu

to put to death
دار پر کھینچنا dār par khaiṉcnā

put to death in Sanskrit

to put to death, cause to be executed
हन्ति hánti
to put to death, execute
हन् han

Synonyms of put to death

Forms of put to death

third-person singular presentputs to death
present participleputting to death
past participleput to death
pastput to death

Questions about put to death

What does put to death mean?
Put to death means to kill as punishment for capital crimes; to execute.
What is put to death in Hindi?
Put to death in Hindi is मरवा डालना (marvā ḍālnā). See Put to death meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is put to death?
Put to death is a verb.
What is the past tense of put to death?
The past tense of put to death is put to death.

Words near put to death in the dictionary

  1. put through the wringer
  2. put throughs
  3. put to
  4. put to bed
  5. put to bed with a shovel
  6. put to death
  7. put to good account
  8. put to good use
  9. put to lie
  10. put to rest
  11. put to sea

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Adapted from Wiktionary: put to death (page history and authors); मरवा डालना (Hindi) (page history and authors); دار پر کھینچنا (Urdu) (page history and authors); हन् (Sanskrit) (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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