Execution

Noun

 * 1) The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
 * 2) The state of being executed (accomplished).
 * 3) The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated.
 * 4)  The carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will.
 * 5)  The formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect.
 * 6)  The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer.

Adjectives for Execution
linguistic; efficient; imperfect; economic; justifiable; rude; supreme; secret; immediate; intrepid; unrivaled; imposing; brilliant; hopeful; bloody; crude; magnificent; vigorous; facile.

Verbs for Execution
await—; cite—; condemn to—; delay—; deliver over to—; demand—; enforce—; entrust—to; escape—; obstruct—; postpone —; reprieve from—; risk—; stay—; warrant—; witness—; —expiates.

Thesaurus
hanging, heed, heeding, hemlock, hemp, hempen collar, hot seat, immolation, implementation, impoundment, impressment, intonation, judicial murder, keeping, kill, killing, lapidation, legato, lethal chamber, levy, liquidation, maiden, management, manipulation, manner, martyrdom, martyrization, mastery, mercy killing, mezzo staccato, mission accomplished, mode, murder, music-making, nationalization, necktie party, noose, observance, observation, occupation, operancy, operation, overproduction, parlando, performance, performing, perpetration, pianism, pizzicato, poisoning, practice, production, productiveness, prosecution, pursuance, realization, removal, rendering, rendition, repercussion, respect, responsibility, ritual killing, ritual murder, rope, rubato, running, sacrifice, satisfaction, scaffold, sequestration, shooting, skill, slaughter, slaying, slur, socialization, spiccato, staccato, stake, steering, stoning, strangling, strangulation, style, success, taking of life, technique, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, touch, transaction, tree, work, working, workings, accomplished fact, accomplishment, accordance, achievement, acquittal, acquittance, action, adherence, administration, agency, angary, annexation, annexure, approach, art, assassination, attachment, attainment, ax, bane, beheading, block, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, braining, bringing to fruition, burning, cantando, capital punishment, care, carrying out, collectivization, commandeering, commission, communalization, communization, completion, compliance, conduct, confiscation, conformance, conformity, consummation, cross, crucifixion, dealing death, death chair, death chamber, decapitation, decollation, defenestration, delivery, demilegato, destruction, destruction of life, direction, discharge, dispatch, distraint, distress, doing, driving, drop, effectuation, electric chair, electrocution, eminent domain, enactment, enforcement, euthanasia, exercise, expression, expropriation, extermination, fait accompli, fingering, flow of blood, fruition, fulfillment, functioning, fusillade, gallows, gallows-tree, garnishment, garrote, gas chamber, gassing, gibbet, glissando, gore, guillotine, halter, handling,

Derived terms
execution style; posthumous execution

Related terms
execute; executioner; executive
 * executor

Hyponyms

 * crucifixion, electrocution, hanging, lethal injection

Etymology
From execution: (c.1360), from  executio:, an agent noun from exequi:}, from ex: + sequor:.

Translations

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 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: végrehajtás, kivitelezés, megvalósítás
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 * Arabic: إعدام
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 * Polish: wykonanie
 * Russian: исполнение (ispoln'énije), техника (t'éχnika)
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 * Czech:
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 * Greek:
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 * Polish: egzekucja
 * Russian: исполнение (ispoln'énije)


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 * Polish: wykonanie
 * Russian: выполнение (vypoln'énije), исполнение (ispoln'énije)


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Etymology
From executio:, an agent noun from exsequor:, itself from ex: + sequor:.

Noun

 * 1) An execution

Descendants

 * French