To put to death as a criminal; to execute.
| 单词 | θ172904 |
| 释义 | society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)] (58) slayc1175 To put to death as a criminal; to execute. to put to deatha1450 to put to death: to kill, esp. as a sentence at the end of a judicial process; to execute. to hang, draw, and quarter1465 to hang, draw, and quarter: to put (a person) to death by hanging, disembowelling (see draw, v. 57a), then cutting the body into four pieces (see qu… strikec1480 To bring suffering or death upon (a person, etc.) as with a blow; to afflict suddenly (with, by sickness, infirmity, death), esp. as a punishment… execute1483 To inflict capital punishment upon; to put to death in pursuance of a sentence. More fully, †to execute to death. †to execute by the head: to behead. justify1531 transitive. To improve by discipline or punishment; to convict and punish; to punish in accordance with law or justice; esp. (Scottish) to put to… execution1565 = execute, v. 6. scaffold1716 To send to the scaffold; to execute. Obsolete. to have or get one's gruel1797 to haveor get one's gruel: to receive one's punishment, to get killed. So to take one's gruel, to give (a person) his gruel. colloquial. Subcategories:— prepare (a person for) (1) — drag to place of execution (1) — lynch (2) — one in ten or decimate (3) — nine out of ten (1) — every hundredth person (1) — behead (9) — quarter (1) — dismember (1) — disembowel (3) — crucify (7) — by impaling (1) — garrotte (2) — burn (4) — electrocute (2) — drown (2) — boil (3) — stone (2) — shoot (2) — delay or suspend execution (1) |
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