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  • 21death — [deth] n. [ME deth < OE dēath, akin to OS dōth, OHG tōd, ON dauthi: see DEAD] 1. the act or fact of dying; permanent ending of all life in a person, animal, or plant 2. [D ] the personification of death, usually pictured as a skeleton in a… …

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  • 22death|watch — «DEHTH WOCH, WCH», noun. 1. a watch kept beside a dying or dead person. 2. a guard for a person about to be put to death. 3. a small, destructive beetle that lives in wood and makes a ticking sound which was once believed to foretell death …

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  • 23put an end to — index abate (extinguish), annul, cancel, cease, check (restrain), condemn (ban) …

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  • 24put down — index cast (register), defeat, demean (make lower), derogate, dispatch (put to death), enter (record …

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  • 25put out of the way — index dispatch (put to death) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 26death by stoning — put to death or die by pelting with stones …

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  • 27was put to death — was killed, was slain, was sentenced to death …

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  • 28Death panel — is a term or phrase from a debunked 2009 partisan, political claim the death panel myth. Repeated or editorialized by politicians, news media, and commentators from both TV and radio, it portrayed the United States government as attempting to… …

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  • 29death — /deth/, n. 1. the act of dying; the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism. Cf. brain death. 2. an instance of this: a death in the family; letters published after his death. 3. the state of being …

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  • 30put — /poot/, v., put, putting, adj., n. v.t. 1. to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf. 2. to bring into some relation, state, etc.: to put everything in order. 3. to… …

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