to put to death
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7.6
- phrasal verb
- /pʊt tə dɛθ/
- Offensive
- Judge: For her great crime against the crown, this woman must be put to death!
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Watch on YouTubeI mean extra biblical evidence that the disciples, that the disciples were put to death for their beliefs.
- I mean extra biblical evidence that the disciples, that the disciples were put to death for their beliefs.
- And, you know, we see that the historian himself is going to be put to death.
- Cruz, ended up getting a life sentence instead of being put to death.
- And, and maybe I'm a conflicted soul, but I would have no problem seeing someone like that put to death because they do not deserve life.
- Is the person aware of the punishment and understands that they're being put to death because of the crime they committed?
- Like I I started speaking beautifully to that person because they were going to put me to death.
- All of a sudden things started to make sense and Giordano Bruno, a theologian, was put to death for suggesting that Copernicus was right.
- He says no person that has sovereign power can justly be put to death or otherwise in any manner by his subjects be punished.
- For in that world, they don't put a man to death to us now.
- And and in the same way that, you know, our Roman magistrate putting Jesus to to death is is like putting it to the people.
- The Testament is did you hear, did you Jesus of Nazareth, whom they put to death.
- And this was like, so like, weird because they want to put me on death, put me to death.
- I was like, I didn't see nobody when I went down and I was pronounced to be put to death.
Examples
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Fred Madison, the jury having found you guilty of murder in the first degree, it is my order that you be put to death in the electric chair.
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The court will demand that she be put to death.
Fiction book (1999) -
Do you wish to put him to death as well?
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Only that this is where she was put to death.
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My real mother was put to death for murder and armed robbery.
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And traitors get put to death!
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Now that he was eligible, the jurors had to determine whether he should be put to death.
Academic text (2007) -
Centuries ago, anyone suspected of being a werewolf was put to death.
Academic text (2011) -
We put murderers to death, but I think raping children is a worse crime.
Academic text (2001) -
In some countries, individuals are still put to death for serious crimes like murder.
Synonyms
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1.0
Cause the death of a person, animal, or other living thing
524
8.6
To kill a person by tying a rope around their neck and removing support
294
6.1
To put someone to death as a legal punishment
291
9.9
To kill someone by tying them to a stake and setting them on fire
50
8.2
To kill someone by nailing them to a cross
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7.4
Cut off the head of a person or animal to kill them
12
9.8
To tie a person to a stake and burn them as punishment or to strongly criticize them in public
Put to death after a court sentence
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to kill' is directly derivable from combining 'put' (to cause or bring into a state) with 'death' (the end of life), with 'to' marking the resulting state, so the phrase denotes causing someone to enter death. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common (e.g., 'condenar a muerte', 'mettre à mort'), making it readily understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituents.
Etymology
The phrase put to death comes from a clear image: a person is put 'to death' when the law makes them die as a punishment. That's why the phrase means 'to kill someone, especially as an official punishment'.