xử quyết

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To execute (a person): To carry out a death sentence, to put someone to death as a formal legal punishment.
   • To put to death: To kill someone, especially as an act of official judgment or summary justice.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Tòa án tuyên án và ra lệnh xử quyết tên phản bội. (The court pronounced the sentence and ordered the execution of the traitor.)
  • Những kẻ cướp bị bắt sống và bị xử quyết tại chỗ. (The bandits were captured alive and put to death on the spot.)

Advanced Usage

• This term is now considered archaic or literary in modern Vietnamese. It is most commonly found in historical, legal, or literary contexts describing formal executions, often from pre-modern or wartime periods.
• It implies a decisive, final, and often severe act of justice or punishment carried out by an authority.

Variants and Related Words

• Xử tử (v): The modern, standard term for "to execute."
  • Bản án là xử tử hình. (The sentence is the death penalty.)
• Hành quyết (v): To carry out an execution.
  • Vụ hành quyết được tiến hành lúc bình minh. (The execution was carried out at dawn.)

Synonyms

• Execute: To kill someone as a legal punishment.
• Put to death: To cause someone to die, especially as a sentence.
• Carry out a death sentence: The formal act of executing a condemned person.

Related Idioms

• While there is no direct idiom with "xử quyết," the concept is related to phrases about final judgment.
• Xử án (v): To try a case, to judge.
  • Tòa án sẽ xử án vào tuần tới. (The court will try the case next week.)