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(transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
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(US, slang, dated) The poison gas used for execution in a gas chamber.
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Someone who intentionally kills a person, especially a professional who kills a public or political figure.
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(nonstandard, often humorous) One who is assassinated.
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Alternative form of axe-murder [To murder (someone) with an axe.]
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To murder (someone) with an axe.
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Alternative form of axe murderer [(figuratively) Any incredibly dangerous person.]
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(UK, slang, historical) To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc.
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(transitive, business) To reduce sales or market share (for one of one's own products) by introducing another.
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The practice of putting a person to death as a punishment for a crime.
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A form of torture in which water is repetitively dripped onto the forehead of a victim who is restrained.
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A person who contracts to kill a specified person for an agreed sum of money.
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An execution by being nailed or tied to an upright cross and left to hang there until dead.
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To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
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(uncountable, psychology) The act of cutting one's own skin as a symptom of a mental disorder; self-harm.
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(countable, Canada, US, hunting) A kind of trap for animals, consisting of a heavy board or log that falls on to the prey.
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One who removes the dead remains of blossoms from plants.
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(construction) A long object, often a timber or log, buried to serve as an anchor for a wall or for stays.
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Lingchi, a form of execution.
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The room in which capital punishment is carried out.
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A post-mortem priapism observed in the corpses of human males who have been executed, particularly by hanging.
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(politics, dated) A form of extrajudicial killing done by military forces in possession of aircraft by which victims are dropped to their death from airplanes or helicopters into oceans, large rivers or mountains.
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(informal, slang) A collection of tools or weapons used in the preparation of a homicide.
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One who depredates, or commits depredation.
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(India) An extrajudicial killing or execution.
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Alternative letter-case form of epstein [(slang) To commit homicide and frame it as a suicide, especially against a witness or co-conspirator in a crime.]
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(veterinary medicine) To kill in a humane manner.
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(idiomatic, of murdering) In a manner resembling that of an execution.
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(dialectal) capital punishment
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A murder or execution with a garrotte.
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(Internet slang, ethnic slur) To kill or murder a black person.
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An execution by guillotine.
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An executioner who uses the guillotine.
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(dated) The practice of carrying out executions using the guillotine.
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An executioner who uses the guillotine.
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Alternative form of hair-raiser [Something which scares or causes fear; something hair-raising.]
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An act of destroying (something) completely, especially by fire.
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Synonym of Jack Ketch (“a public executioner”)
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An instance of someone being killed.
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(chiefly US, idiomatic, euphemistic) Death.
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(transitive) To execute (someone) by means of lethal chamber.
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A form of execution used in China from roughly 900 to 1905 C.E., the "death by a thousand cuts", in which the condemned was killed by methodical removal of body parts with a knife.
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Execution of a person by mob action without due process of law, especially by hanging.
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To apply mock injuries for the purpose of training medical or military personnel.
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(transitive, often with through) To cut down or slaughter in great numbers.
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(informal, usually preceded by the) The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.
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Alternative letter-case form of night of the long knives (“purge”) used especially in reference to a specific one, particularly the 1934 one in Germany, but also e.g. the British one of 1962. [A purge, in which opponents of a regime or political party are killed or removed.]
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(historical, obsolete, nonce word) To murder by drowning, especially during the French Reign of Terror.
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(transitive) To persecute or massacre a particular group of people.
adj
(US politics) Subsequent to Gregg v. Georgia, a 1976 legal case that reaffirmed the United States Supreme Court's acceptance of the use of the death penalty in the United States.
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(usually in the plural) Synonym of roach killer
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The practice of scavenging.
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Synonym of Adams-Stokes attack
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(UK, Scotland, dialect) One who lays out a dead body; a professional attendant of the dead
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(India) A contract killing; a hit taken out on somebody.
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The act of one who trepans.
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(idiomatic) Death (or loss of an inanimate object) via drowning (sinking) in a body of water.
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