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Execute

verb

(past & past part. executed; pres. part. executing)

Kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment. Synonym: put to death.

Murder in a planned fashion.

Put in effect. Synonyms: accomplish, action, carry out, carry through, fulfil, fulfill. "Execute the decision of the people" , "He actioned the operation"

Carry out the legalities of.

Carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine. Synonym: run. "Run a new program on the Mac" , "The computer executed the instruction"

Carry out or perform an action. Synonyms: do, perform. "The skater executed a triple pirouette" , "She did a little dance"

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"Execute" Quotes from Famous Books

... enforcing the bull of excommunication against the queen. These men were natives of England, though educated on the Continent. They assumed various disguises on their arrival, travelling from place to place to promote the grand design, which had been projected at Rome. They endeavoured to execute the bull by making various attempts upon the queen's life, from which, however, she was mercifully delivered. Two points were constantly kept in view: the one to stir up dissensions at home, among the ...

— Guy Fawkes - or A Complete History Of The Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605 • Thomas Lathbury

... and the civilian; either can let the other down. If the civilian army loses its morale, its vision, its unselfishness, and allows itself to be out-bluffed by the civilian army of Germany, it as surely betrays its soldiers as if it joined forces with the Hun. We execute soldiers for cowardice; it's a pity that the same law does not govern the civilian army. There would be a rapid revision in the tone of more than one English and American newspaper. A soldier is shot for cowardice because his example is contagious. What can ...

— Out To Win - The Story of America in France • Coningsby Dawson

... I did not execute my task very expeditiously: for I was glad of this opportunity of witnessing, the maternal piety with which she enforced, in voice and expression, every sentence that contained any lesson that might be useful to her royal daughters. She reads extremely ...

— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 1 • Madame D'Arblay

... party, confessed that they knew Mr. Hamblin was listening to them; that they intended he should hear the plot, which they had not designed to execute; that it was only a trick to ...

— Dikes and Ditches - Young America in Holland and Belguim • Oliver Optic

... was being used was such as to cause a failure of justice. They had waited patiently, and were apparently no nearer seeing justice executed than in the beginning. So they proposed to take the law into their own hands. The remedy was, to do away with all but proper defences and execute ...

— The Spectre In The Cart - 1908 • Thomas Nelson Page

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