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Synset

kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment
<verb.social>   freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

execute more info
put to death more info

sample sentences

"In some states, criminals are executed"

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody
They want to %s the prisoners

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody
They want to %s the prisoners
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
executing execution
semantic pointers
hypernym
kill punish, penalize, penalise
hyponym
crucify burn hang, string up
verb group
execute