#killing__putting_to_death  the act of terminating a life
  supertype:  #termination__ending__conclusion  the act of ending something; "the termination of the agreement"
  subtype:  #deathblow__coupdegrace  the blow that kills (usually mercifully)
  subtype:  #death.killing  the act of killing; "he had two deaths on his conscience"
  subtype:  #euthanasia__mercy_killing__mercykilling  the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness)
  subtype:  #manslaughter  unlawful killing of a human being without malice
     subtype:  #chance-medley  unpremeditated killing of a human being in self defense
  subtype:  #murder__homicide__slaying  unlawful premeditated killing of a human being
     subtype:  #bloodshed__blood__gore  the shedding of blood resulting in murder; "he avenged the blood of his kinsmen"
     subtype:  #parricide  murder of your own parents
        subtype:  #matricide  murder of your mother
        subtype:  #patricide  murder of your father
     subtype:  #elimination.murder__liquidation  the murder of a competitor
     subtype:  #carnage__slaughter__butchery  the savage and excessive killing of people
        subtype:  #bloodbath__bloodletting__bloodshed__battue  indiscriminate slaughter
     subtype:  #assassination  murder of a public figure by surprise attack
     subtype:  #dry-gulching__drygulching  the act of killing from ambush
     subtype:  #fratricide  the act of murdering your own brother or sister
     subtype:  #hit.murder  a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"
     subtype:  #infanticide  murdering an infant
     subtype:  #shoot-down__shootdown  murder by shooting someone down in cold blood
     subtype:  #tyrannicide  killing a tyrant
     subtype:  #thuggee  murder and robbery by thugs
  subtype:  #dispatch__despatch  the murder or execution of someone
  subtype:  #fell  the act of felling something (as a tree)
  subtype:  #immolation  killing as a sacrificial act
  subtype:  #self-annihilation__suicide__self-destruction  the act of killing yourself
     subtype:  #assisted_suicide  suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible
     subtype:  #felo-de-se  an act of deliberate self destruction
     subtype:  #harakiri__hara-kiri__harikari  (Japan) ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by warriors in the traditional Japanese society
     subtype:  #suttee  the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband
  subtype:  #slaughter  the killing of animals (as for food)
  subtype:  #lynching  putting to death by mob action without due process of law
  subtype:  #poisoning  killing by the administration of poison
     subtype:  #gassing  the deliberate act of poisoning someone with gas
  subtype:  #regicide  the act of killing a king
  subtype:  #shooting  killing by gunfire; "when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies"
     subtype:  #drive-by_shooting  shooting someone from a car as it is driven past the victim
     subtype:  #wing_shooting  shooting game birds that are flying (on the wing)
  subtype:  #suffocation__asphyxiation  killing by depriving of oxygen
     subtype:  #strangling__choking__strangulation__throttling  the act of suffocating by constricting the windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused"
  subtype:  #ritual_killing__sacrifice  the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity
     subtype:  #hecatomb  a great sacrifice; an ancient Greek or Roman sacrifice of 100 oxen
     subtype:  #immolation.ritual_killing  to kill as a sacrifice by fire
  subtype:  #electrocution  killing by electric shock
  subtype:  #decapitation__beheading  killing by cutting off the head
  subtype:  #genocide__race_murder__racial_extermination  systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
     subtype:  #Holocaust__final_solution__finalsolution  the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler
  subtype:  #massacre__mass_murder  the wanton killing of many people
     instance:  #Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn__Little_Bighorn__Battle_of_Little_Bighorn__Custer's_Last_Stand

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