to kill; to murder; to execute, especially in a formal or retributive context

to condemn or attack a person or their actions through both spoken words and written text

(literary) to be executed for a crime; to be put to death by the law

To be struck down by heaven and destroyed by the earth; used to describe being so wicked that one is not tolerated by the universe, often used in oaths and curses.

to kill; to exterminate; to wipe out

(literary) to kill or execute someone

to kill or exterminate; to wipe out

to execute a criminal's entire family or clan as punishment for their individual crime; often specifically referring to the historical practice of killing the father, wife, and children

describes a crime so heinous that even executing the offender would not be enough to atone for it; guilty of most atrocious crimes

To punish or condemn someone for a mistake or crime without first providing education or prior warning; to act with cruelty by failing to guide others before penalizing them.

A criticism that exposes someone's hidden motives or condemns them based on their intentions rather than their actual actions; a devastatingly penetrating critique.

to kill or wipe out; to uproot and eradicate traitors

(idiom) to die by the battle-ax; to be executed by the state

(idiom) to make endless exorbitant demands; to be relentlessly greedy and never satisfied

to wipe out or exterminate those who disagree with one's own views

Look out for yourself or heaven and earth will combine to destroy you; every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost.

punishment sent by heaven or carried out by an emperor in the name of heaven; heavenly retribution

Sun Zhu (1711-1778), a poet of the Qing dynasty and the primary compiler of the [[唐诗三百首|唐詩三百首|tang2 shi1 san1 bai3 shou3]]; also known by the pen name [[蘅塘退士|蘅塘退士|heng2 tang2 tui4 shi4]].

(idiom) to find someone and punish them; used to describe a person who is so wicked that everyone has a right to kill them if they catch them

Commonly used idiom from the Daoist classic [[庄子|莊子|zhuang1 zi3]] describing double standards in justice: big crimes go unpunished while small ones are severely punished.

A person who steals a small item is punished, while one who steals a whole nation is rewarded with power; an idiom from the Daoist classic [[庄子|莊子|zhuang1 zi3]].

to condemn someone or something both orally and in written works

(literary) to execute an offender's entire family, including all related households within the nine degrees of kinship, as a collective punishment for a capital crime

to execute the wicked and suppress those who rebel

to punish and execute villains and rebels; to suppress wicked usurpers and insurgents in the name of justice

to wipe out completely; to exterminate every last one

To criticize someone based on their hidden intentions rather than their actual actions or words; to expose someone's ulterior motives. motives.

To criticize someone's motives or intentions rather than their actual actions

to execute an entire family as a punishment for a crime committed by one of its members

To suppress and execute cruel tyrants and rebellious insurgents

(literary) to extort; to make exorbitant demands; to demand with menaces

to make endless and exorbitant demands; to extort or claim without end

to execute and exile; to put to death and send into banishment