美 [pʊt tu deθ]
处死：指通过法律手段将某人处以死刑。
杀死：指将某人杀害。
毁灭：指彻底摧毁或终结某事物。
kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment
同义词： execute
The employees are putting to death one-day old chickens with tears. "it's as if a mother killed her child", - poultry-women explain their feelings.
该员工含着泪水对死于一日龄的雏鸡说：“这好像一个孩子的母亲杀了她”-家禽饲养妇女解释他们的感受。
He found out, too, that the states spend millions of dollars putting a handful of murderers to death while detection is under-financed and thousands of murderers walk free.
他也发现，各州花费数以百万计的美元对屈指可数的罪犯执行死刑的同时，案件侦破经费严重不足，成千的谋杀犯逍遥法外。
As the zoo tries to figure out what killed Knut, animal-rights groups are blaming zookeepers for his death, accusing officials of putting financial interests ahead of the famous polar bear's welfare.
当动物园调查克努特死因时，动物权益组织纷纷谴责动物园管理员和相关人士为了眼前的利益而置克努特的健康于不顾。
Government conduct with KPMG has been the equivalent of the medieval practice of putting a defendant on the rack: confess or we'll torture you to death.
But after the death of Jacintha Saldanha, days after putting through a hoax call to the Duchess of Cambridge's nurse, will people think twice before hatching such a prank?
The stoning to death of adulteresses is still enshrined as law but there is a moratorium against putting it into practice.