Noun:

துாக்குத்தண்டனை,

executions's Usage Examples:

Retaliatory executions began, though on a small scale, and when York reached London he at last began to talk of his rights to the crown, and to propose the deposition of Henry VI.

The executions and floggings were carried out the next day at the scene of the outrage and in the presence of some five hundred natives.

The executions took place on market days on a hill outside the town, the gibbet somewhat resembling a guillotine.

Pierre felt that that fatal force which had crushed him during the executions, but which he had not felt during his imprisonment, now again controlled his existence.

Frightful executions in the island followed his fall.

Everywhere intense indignation was aroused by the cruel tortures and executions.

The first ever video footage of public executions of forcibly repatriated defectors was shown.

It was a mere rump, for wholesale executions had thinned its numbers and the reconquered countries were not represented in it.

On the 23rd the Austrians entered Naples, followed soon afterwards by the king; every vestige of freedom was suppressed, the reactionary Medici ministry appointed, and the inevitable state trials instituted with the usual harvest of executions and imprisonment.

A rigid censorship was exercised concerning the publication of information as to the production of munitions, measures of defence, bombardments, air raids, arrests, trials and executions of spies, etc.

; but additional instances are found in the Strand, which originally ran close to the sloping bank of the Thames, and in Smithfield, now the central meat market, but for long the " smooth field " where a cattle and hay market was held, and the scene of tournaments and games, and also of executions.

A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices, For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn!Villains, over whose fate the reader rejoices, are put down as victims of vile treason, and those who dealt with them as he would have been glad to do are subjected to horrible executions without one word of sympathy.

One of the terms of the capitulation had been that her life should be spared; but in spite of this she was brought to trial for the numerous and cruel executions of which she had been guilty during her short lease of power.

Synonyms:

corporal punishment, beheading, hanging, executing, capital punishment, electrocution, burning, decapitation, burning at the stake, death penalty, crucifixion,

Antonyms:

source, sink, activation, overachievement, underachievement,