Thesaurus:killing
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: causing a life to end
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]- devitalization [⇒ thesaurus]
- liquidation (euphemistic)
- murder
- slaughter
- homicide
- manslaughter
- assassination
By subject:
- infanticide
- parricide
- filicide
- familicide
- fratricide
- sororicide
- patricide
- matricide
- uxoricide
- regicide
- tsaricide
- deicide
- monstricide
By scale: extreme:
By method:
- execution
- crucifixion
- beheading
- decapitation
- electrocution
- hanging
- lapidation
- lethal injection
- stoning
By subject: self:
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “killing” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “killing” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.