death warrant
Lethal legal decree
A death warrant is an official document authorizing someone's execution.
Figuratively, anything that seals someone's fate or guarantees destruction: Signing that contract was his death warrant.
The diagnosis felt like a death warrant.
To sign your own death warrant is to do something that ensures your downfall.
Execution by legal authority
- executionerOne who kills condemned
- gallowsExecution hanging apparatus
- lethal injectionCapital punishment by needle
- electric chairElectrocution execution device
firing squad · guillotine · hangman · scaffold · noose · last meal · last words · clemency
Authoritative legal command
- edictAuthoritative public command
- writCourt-issued directive
- proclamationFormal public announcement
- sealAuthentication stamp or mark
signature · parchment · authorization · ratification · judicial order · court order · magistrate · tribunal
Sudden loss of power
- destructionAct of completely ruining
- ruinComplete destruction or collapse
- demiseCessation of existence
- endFinal portion or cessation
fate · undoing · catastrophe · sealed fate · final blow · nail in coffin · point of no return · self-destruction
Act ending one's profession
- fatal errorUnrecoverable computing malfunction
- self-sabotageUndermining your own goals
- final strawLimit-exceeding final burden
- coup de grâceMerciful finishing blow
capital punishment
Execution by legal authority
- executionerOne who kills condemned
- gallowsExecution hanging apparatus
- lethal injectionCapital punishment by needle
electric chair · firing squad · guillotine · hangman · scaffold · noose · last meal · last words · clemency · appeal
decree
Authoritative legal command
- edictAuthoritative public command
- writCourt-issued directive
- proclamationFormal public announcement
seal · signature · parchment · authorization · ratification · judicial order · court order · magistrate · tribunal · binding
downfall
Sudden loss of power
- destructionAct of completely ruining
- ruinComplete destruction or collapse
- demiseCessation of existence
end · fate · undoing · catastrophe · sealed fate · final blow · nail in coffin · point of no return · self-destruction · beginning of the end
career suicide
Act ending one's profession
- fatal errorUnrecoverable computing malfunction
- self-sabotageUndermining your own goals
- final strawLimit-exceeding final burden
- court recordscourt documents, court transcripts, court records, court cases, court record
- death idiomsdead end, dead serious, dead wrong, dead tired, dead weight
- executionexecution, lethal injection, firing squad, gas chamber, electric chair
- warrants
- capital punishmentexecution, lethal injection, electric chair, guillotine, hanging
- executionsexecution, execution chamber, hanging, guillotine, executioner
death warrantpardon
Official release from punishment
reprieve · full pardon · commutation · stay of execution · clemency
death warrantlifeline
Essential connection to safety
reprieve · saving grace · salvation · stay of execution · rescue
death, deadly, guarantee, warrant, warranty, deadline, deaden, deadbeat, warranted