Kill by throwing stones at.
synonym: stone.
Roget 972:
punish;
chastise,
chasten;
castigate,
correct,
inflict punishment,
administer correction,
deal retributive justice;
cowhide,
lambaste [Slang].
visit upon,
pay;
pay out,
serve out;
do for;
make short work of,
give a lesson to,
serve one right,
make an example of;
have a rod in pickle for;
give it one.
strike
etc.
276;
deal a blow to,
administer the lash,
smite;
slap,
slap the face;
smack,
cuff,
box the ears,
spank,
thwack,
thump,
beat,
lay on,
swinge†,
buffet;
thresh,
thrash,
pummel,
drub,
leather,
trounce,
sandbag,
baste,
belabor;
lace,
lace one's jacket;
dress,
dress down,
give a dressing,
trim,
warm,
wipe,
tund†,
cob,
bang,
strap,
comb,
lash,
lick,
larrup,
wallop,
whop,
flog,
scourge,
whip,
birch,
cane,
give the stick,
switch,
flagellate,
horsewhip,
bastinado,
towel,
rub down with an oaken towel,
rib roast,
dust one's jacket,
fustigate†,
pitch into,
lay about one,
beat black and blue;
beat to a mummy,
beat to a jelly;
give a black eye.
tar and feather;
pelt,
stone,
lapidate†;
masthead,
keelhaul.
execute;
bring to the block,
bring to the gallows;
behead,
decapitate,
guillotine;
decollate;
hang,
turn off,
gibbet,
bowstring,
hang draw and quarter;
shoot;
decimate;
burn;
break on the wheel,
crucify;
empale†,
impale;
flay;
lynch;
electrocute;
gas,
send to the gas chamber.
torture;
put on,
put to the rack;
picket.
banish,
exile,
transport,
expel,
ostracize;
rusticate;
drum out;
dismiss,
disbar,
disbench†;
strike off the roll,
unfrock;
post.
suffer,
suffer for,
suffer punishment;
be flogged.
be executed,
suffer the ultimate penalty;
be hanged
&c.;
come to the gallows,
mount the gallows,
swing [Coll.],
twist in the wind,
dance upon nothing,
die in one's shoes;
be rightly served;
be electrocuted,
fry [Coll.],
ride the lightning [Coll.];
face the firing squad.
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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 716:
attack,
assault,
assail;
invade;
set upon,
fall upon;
charge,
impugn,
break a lance with,
enter the lists.
assume the offensive,
take the offensive;
be the aggressor,
become the aggressor;
strike the first blow,
draw first blood,
throw the first stone at;
lift a hand against,
draw the sword against;
take up the cudgels;
advance against,
march against;
march upon,
harry;
come on,
show fight.
strike at,
poke at,
thrust at;
aim a blow at,
deal a blow at;
give one a blow,
fetch one a blow,
fetch one a kick,
give one a kick;
have a cut at,
have a shot at,
take a cut at,
take a shot at,
have a fling at,
have a shy at;
be down upon,
pounce upon;
fall foul of,
pitch into,
launch out against;
bait,
slap on the face;
make a thrust at,
make a pass at,
make a set at,
make a dead set at;
bear down upon.
close with,
come to close quarters;
bring to bay.
ride full tilt against;
attack tooth and nail,
go at hammer and tongs.
let fly at,
dash at,
run a tilt at,
rush at,
tilt at,
run at,
fly at,
hawk at,
have at,
let out at;
make a dash,
make a rush at;
strike home;
drive one hard;
press one hard;
be hard upon,
run down,
strike at the root of.
lay about one,
run amuck.
aim at,
draw a bead on [U.S.].
fire upon,
fire at,
fire a shot at;
shoot at,
pop at,
level at,
let off a gun at;
open fire,
pepper,
bombard,
shell,
pour a broadside into;
fire a volley,
fire red-hot shot;
spring a mine.
throw a stone,
throw stones at;
stone,
lapidate†,
pelt;
hurl at,
hurl against,
hurl at the head of;
rock beset [U.S.],
besiege,
beleaguer;
lay siege to,
invest,
open the trenches,
plant a battery,
sap,
mine;
storm,
board,
scale the walls.
cut and thrust,
bayonet,
butt;
kick,
strike
etc.
(impulse)
276;
whip
etc.
(punish)
972.
[attack verbally]
assail,
impugn;
malign
(detract)
934.
bomb,
rocket,
blast.
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