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Variant of execute

execute Definition

ex·ecute (ek′si kyo̵̅o̅t′)

transitive verb executed -·cut′·ed, executing -·cut′·ing

  1. to follow out or carry out; do; perform; fulfill to execute another's orders
  2. to carry into effect; administer (laws, etc.)
  3. to put to death as in accordance with a legally imposed sentence
  4. to create or produce in accordance with an idea, plan, blueprint, etc. to execute a statue in marble
  5. to perform (a piece of music, a part in a play, etc.)
  6. Comput. to perform the operations indicated in (an instruction or program)
  7. Law to complete or make valid (a deed, contract, etc.) as by signing, sealing, and delivering

Etymology: ME executen < OFr executer, back-form. < executeur: see executor

intransitive verb

Comput. to run an instruction or program

Related Forms:

executed Synonyms

executed

modif.

  1. Performed

    completed, done, carried out; see finished 1.

  2. Formally put to death

    killed, hanged, electrocuted, gassed, shot, shot at sunrise, sent before a firing squad, beheaded, guillotined, decapitated, brought to the block, impaled, crucified, drawn and quartered, immured, garroted, gibbeted, burned at the stake, murdered by decree, dispatched, sent to the gas chamber, sent to the chair*, scorched*, stretched*, strung up*, hung up to dry*, fried*, cooked*, sent to the showers*.

executed Law Definition

adj

Of a legal document, that it has been signed; of an action, that it has been carried out.
executed Usage Examples

Used with why or when

  • when: In 1945 his other son was executed when declared guilty of complicity in a plot to kill Hitler.

Object

  • command: All error messages are written to the standard error stream; normal output from the executed commands is written to standard output.

Preposition: at

  • power-up: SET WORK is typed interactively after compilation to tell the TDS2020 F that WORK is to be executed at power-up.

Preposition: as

  • traitor: He attempted to convert it into a garrison for Robert Bruce, but was arrested within its walls, and executed as a traitor.

Subject

  • squad: Despite a massive international campaign, Joe Hill was executed by firing squad.

Present participle complement

  • accord: The emotional state of the text will affect how time-dependent skills will be executed according to these time functions.

Preposition: in

  • parallel: With for parameter With for = n, a loop iteration is divided into n loops executed in parallel.
  • accordance: Ensure works are executed safely in accordance with agreed methodology.

Preposition: with

  • panache: Well presented, the cooking executed with panache, in other words it was very good.
  • aplomb: The retaliation can sometimes be executed with great aplomb.
  • precision: Jack Pollock's Devil Chef is subversive fire-and-brimstone satire executed with cold cartoon precision to take readers to the seventh level of lowbrow laughs!

Preposition: for

  • treason: The Neapolitan admiral was executed for treason and rebellion, although Nelson could have shown him mercy.
  • witchcraft: It's about a woman named Mrs. Mothersole, who was executed for witchcraft at Bury St. Edmunds during the late 1600s.
  • murder: Jay, Horace Robert Horace Robert Jay was executed for the murder of Florence Kemp.

Preposition: by

  • squad: Despite a massive international campaign, Joe Hill was executed by firing squad.
executed Quotes

The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis