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put to the sword

put to the sword verb: to execute, especially by using a sword.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To execute, especially by using a sword.
  2. (idiomatic) To severely defeat.
    • Robin van Persie scored twice as ruthless Arsenal put struggling West Ham to the sword in a match tipped to be Avram Grant's last as Hammers boss.2011 January 15, Kevin Darling, “West Ham 0 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC
  3. (idiomatic) To kill by warfare.

put to the sword meaning in Malayalam

put to the sword in Malayalam

execute, kill, put to death
വാളിനിരയാക്കുക, കൊല്ലുക, വധിക്കുക, കൊലചെയ്യുക, കശാപ്പുചെയ്യുക, അറുത്തുകൊല്ലുക

Synonyms of put to the sword

Forms of put to the sword

third-person singular presentputs to the sword
present participleputting to the sword
past participleput to the sword
pastput to the sword

Questions about put to the sword

What does put to the sword mean?
Put to the sword means to execute, especially by using a sword.
What is put to the sword in Malayalam?
Put to the sword in Malayalam is വാളിനിരയാക്കുക, കൊല്ലുക, വധിക്കുക. See Put to the sword meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is put to the sword?
Put to the sword is a verb.
What is the past tense of put to the sword?
The past tense of put to the sword is put to the sword.

Words near put to the sword in the dictionary

  1. put to sea
  2. put to shame
  3. put to sleep
  4. put to the blush
  5. put to the horn
  6. put to the sword
  7. put to the test
  8. put to the torch
  9. put to the vote
  10. put to use
  11. put to words

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Adapted from Wiktionary: put to the sword (page history and authors); put to the sword (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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