Kill
Lock up
Lock up verb - To put in or as if in prison.
Both terms in one sentence
- Anything you think you can do about it is only going to make things worse, and when you lock up or kill one drug kingpin, you create an Evil Power Vacuum that will only be filled by someone worse.
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Not only did humans start putting aliens in concentration camps and kill them, but after Earth withdrew from the United Planets, nearly all of the different species decried Earth as "ignorant and backwater" and some even tried to lock up and kill anyone associated with Earth.
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King Jakoven in Patricia Briggs' Hurog series built the Asylum specifically to lock up his brother Kellen, having been warned in a prophecy that it would be a very bad idea to kill his brother.
Source: Man in the Iron Mask
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