put someone to death
• kill someone, especially with official sanction.
• "the prisoner was found guilty of sabotage and put to death without trial"
Similar:
execute,
hang,
send to the gibbet/gallows,
behead,
guillotine,
decapitate,
electrocute,
send to the electric chair,
send to the chair,
shoot,
put before a firing squad,
send to the gas chamber,
gas,
crucify,
stone,
stone to death,
kill,
murder,
assassinate,
do to death,
do away with,
take the life of,
eliminate,
terminate,
exterminate,
destroy,
string up,
bump off,
polish off,
do in,
knock off,
top,
wipe out,
take out,
croak,
stiff,
blow away,
ice,
rub out,
waste,
whack,
scrag,
smoke,
slay,
