give no quarter
verb
Roget 361:
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.
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Roget 739:
be severe
etc.
adj..
assume,
usurp,
arrogate,
take liberties;
domineer,
bully
etc.
885;
tyrannize,
inflict,
wreak,
stretch a point,
put on the screw;
be hard upon;
bear a heavy hand on,
lay a heavy hand on;
be down upon,
come down upon;
ill treat;
deal hardly with,
deal hard measure to;
rule with a rod of iron,
chastise with scorpions;
dye with blood;
oppress,
override;
trample under foot;
tread under foot,
tread upon,
trample upon,
tread down upon,
trample down upon;
crush under an iron heel,
ride roughshod over;
rivet the yoke;
hold a tight hand,
keep a tight hand;
force down the throat;
coerce
etc.
744;
give no quarter
etc.
(pitiless)
914.1.
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Roget 914a:
have no mercy,
shut the gates of mercy
etc.
914;
give no quarter.
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