Categories of Meaning

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i.
Have pity, compassionate,
weep for, have mercy, relent,
forbear, give quarter, spare,
reprieve, pardon, lament,
have one's heart bleed.

ii.
Do away with, liquidate,
dispatch, put to sleep,
launch into eternity,
send to kingdom come,
send to a last accounting,
send to glory, eliminate,
blot out, hit, ice, waste, fix,
martyr, sacrifice, nip in the bud,
poison, starve, execute, drown,
grant the kiss of death,

suffocate, garrote, strangle,
deal a coup de grâce, shoot,
cut to ribbons, slash, strike down,
put to the sword, fell, lapidate,
put to death, murder, slaughter
blow up, vaporize, incinerate,
burn at the stake, lynch,
depopulate, massacre,
commit genocide, annihilate,
pour out blood like water.