Definition

1. Verb:
   • To execute (a person), to put to death: The act of killing someone, especially as a formal punishment carried out by state or judicial authority.
   • To carry out an execution: To perform the act of officially killing someone as a legal penalty.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Tòa án đã tuyên án và tên tội phạm bị hành quyết vào sáng sớm. (The court pronounced the sentence and the criminal was executed at dawn.)
  • Những kẻ phản bội đã bị bắt và hành quyết ngay lập tức. (The traitors were captured and put to death immediately.)
  • Phương thức hành quyết trong thời cổ đại thường rất tàn bạo. (The methods of execution in ancient times were often brutal.)

Advanced Usage

• "thi hành án tử hình": This is a more formal, legalistic phrase meaning "to carry out a death sentence." It is often used interchangeably with in official contexts.
  • Bản án đã có hiệu lực và sẽ được thi hành. (The sentence has taken effect and will be carried out.)

Variants and Related Words

• Hành hình (verb): A direct synonym, also meaning "to execute." It is often used in the same contexts as .
  • Kẻ sát nhân cuối cùng đã bị hành hình. (The murderer was finally executed.)
• Tử hình (noun): The death penalty, capital punishment.
  • Hắn ta bị kết án tử hình. (He was sentenced to death.)
• Xử tử (verb): Another synonym meaning "to put to death," "to execute."
  • Tên bạo chúa bị xử tử bằng độc dược. (The tyrant was executed by poison.)

Synonyms

• Xử tử: To put to death, to execute.
• Giết (in a formal/legal context): To kill. (Note: is the general word for "to kill" and is much broader. It only overlaps with when referring to a formal, sanctioned killing.)

Related Phrases / Idioms

• "Hành quyết tại chỗ" / "Xử bắn tại chỗ": To execute on the spot; to summarily execute.
  • Viên chỉ huy ra lệnh hành quyết tại chỗ tên gián điệp. (The commander ordered the spy to be executed on the spot.)

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