noun
the act of terminating a life
• Hypernyms: ↑termination, ↑ending, ↑conclusion
• Hyponyms:
↑deathblow, ↑coup de grace, ↑death, ↑euthanasia, ↑mercy killing, ↑homicide, ↑dispatch, ↑despatch, ↑fell, ↑suicide, ↑self-destruction, ↑self-annihilation, ↑slaughter, ↑poisoning, ↑suffocation, ↑asphyxiation, ↑sacrifice, ↑ritual killing, ↑electrocution, ↑decapitation, ↑beheading, ↑genocide, ↑race murder, ↑racial extermination
Useful english dictionary. 2012.