putting to death vs death

death vs putting to death

putting to death and death both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
putting to death	Yes	No	No	No
death	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, death is a hyponym of putting to death; that is, death is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than putting to death:

putting to death: the act of terminating a life
death: the act of killing

Other hyponyms of putting to death include coup de grace, deathblow, euthanasia, mercy killing, homicide, despatch, dispatch, fell, self-annihilation, self-destruction, suicide, slaughter, poisoning, asphyxiation, suffocation, ritual killing, sacrifice, electrocution, beheading, decapitation, genocide, race murder, racial extermination.

putting to death (noun)	death (noun)
the act of terminating a life	the act of killing
	the event of dying or departure from life
	the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
	the absence of life or state of being dead
	a final state
	the time when something ends
	the time at which life ends; continuing until dead

Difference between putting to death and death

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