noyade
noun
Roget 972:
punishment,
punition†;
chastisement,
chastening;
correction,
castigation.
discipline,
infliction,
trial;
judgment;
penalty
etc.
974;
retribution;
thunderbolt,
Nemesis;
requital
etc.
(reward)
973;
penology;
retributive justice.
lash,
scaffold
etc.
(instrument of punishment)
975;
imprisonment
etc.
(restraint)
751;
transportation,
banishment,
expulsion,
exile,
involuntary exile,
ostracism;
penal servitude,
hard labor;
galleys
etc.
975;
beating
etc.
v.;
flagellation,
fustigation†,
gantlet,
strappado†,
estrapade†,
bastinado,
argumentum baculinum [Lat.],
stick law,
rap on the knuckles,
box on the ear;
blow
etc.
(impulse)
276;
stripe,
cuff,
kick,
buffet,
pummel;
slap,
slap in the face;
wipe,
douse;
coup de grace;
torture,
rack;
picket,
picketing;
dragonnade†.
capital punishment;
execution;
lethal injection;
the gas chamber;
hanging
etc.
v.;
electrocution,
rail-riding,
scarpines†;
decapitation,
decollation†;
garrotte,
garrotto [It];
crucifixion,
impalement;
firing squad;
martyrdom;
auto-da-fe [Fr.];
noyade†;
happy dispatch.
[suicide as punishment]
hara-kiri,
seppuku [Jap.];
drinking the hemlock.
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Roget 361:
killing
etc.
v.;
homicide,
manslaughter,
murder,
assassination,
trucidation†,
iccusion†;
effusion of blood;
blood,
blood shed;
gore,
slaughter,
carnage,
butchery;
battue†.
massacre;
fusillade,
noyade†;
thuggery,
Thuggism†.
deathblow,
finishing stroke,
coup de grace,
quietus;
execution
etc.
(capital punishment)
972;
judicial murder;
martyrdom.
butcher,
slayer,
murderer,
Cain,
assassin,
terrorist,
cutthroat,
garroter,
bravo,
Thug,
Moloch,
matador,
sabreur†;
guet-a-pens;
gallows,
executioner
etc.
(punishment)
975;
man-eater,
apache†,
hatchet man [U.S.],
highbinder [U.S.].
regicide,
parricide,
matricide,
fratricide,
infanticide,
feticide,
foeticide†,
uxoricide†,
vaticide†.
suicide,
felo de se†,
hara-kiri,
suttee,
Juggernath†;
immolation,
auto da fe,
holocaust.
suffocation,
strangulation,
garrote;
hanging
etc.
v.;
lapidation†.
deadly weapon
etc.
(arms)
727;
Aceldama†.
[Destruction of animals]
slaughtering;
phthisozoics†;
sport,
sporting;
the chase,
venery;
hunting,
coursing,
shooting,
fishing;
pig-sticking;
sportsman,
huntsman,
fisherman;
hunter,
Nimrod;
slaughterhouse,
meat packing plant,
shambles,
abattoir.
fatal accident,
violent death,
casualty.
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