killing

Roget-categorie 361

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.1. Vitality

#361. [Destruction of life; violent death.] Killing

zelfstandig naamwoord

killing etc. v. — homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation^†, iccusion^† — effusion of blood — blood, blood shed — gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery — battue^†.
massacre — fusillade, noyade^† — thuggery, Thuggism^†.
deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus — execution etc. (capital punishment) 972 — judicial murder — martyrdom.
butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur^† — guet-a-pens — gallows, executioner etc. (punishment) 975 — man-eater, apache^†, hatchet man [U.S.], highbinder [U.S.].
regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide^†, uxoricide^†, vaticide^†.
suicide, felo de se^†, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath^† — immolation, auto da fe, holocaust.
suffocation, strangulation, garrote — hanging etc. v. — lapidation^†.
deadly weapon etc. (arms) 727 — Aceldama^†.
[Destruction of animals] slaughtering — phthisozoics^† — sport, sporting — the chase, venery — hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing — pig-sticking — sportsman, huntsman, fisherman — hunter, Nimrod — slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir.
fatal accident, violent death, casualty.

werkwoord

kill, put to death, slay, shed blood — murder, assassinate, butcher, slaughter, victimize, immolate — massacre — take away life, deprive of life — make away with, put an end to — despatch, dispatch — burke, settle, do for.
strangle, garrote, hang, throttle, choke, stifle, suffocate, stop the breath, smother, asphyxiate, drown.
saber — cut down, cut to pieces, cut the throat — jugulate^† — stab, run through the body, bayonet, eviscerate — put to the sword, put to the edge of the sword.
shoot dead — blow one's brains out — brain, knock on the head — stone, lapidate^† — give a deathblow — deal a deathblow — give a quietus, give a coupe de grace.
behead, bowstring, electrocute, gas etc. (execute) 972.
hunt, shoot etc. n.. cut off, nip in the bud, launch into eternity, send to one's last account, sign one's death warrant, strike the death knell of.
give no quarter, pour out blood like water — decimate — run amuck — wade knee deep in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood.
die a violent death, welter in one's blood — dash out one's brains, blow out one's brains — commit suicide — kill oneself, make away with oneself, put an end to oneself, put an end to it all.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

killing etc. v. — murderous, slaughterous — sanguinary, sanguinolent^† — blood stained, blood thirsty — homicidal, red handed — bloody, bloody minded — ensanguined^†, gory — thuggish.
mortal, fatal, lethal — dead, deadly — mortiferous^†, lethiferous^† — unhealthy etc. 657 — internecine — suicidal.
sporting — piscatorial, piscatory^†.

bijwoord

in at the death.

uitdrukking

assassination has never changed the history of the assassination has never changed the history of the world" [Disraeli].

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