execute
verb
[ ˈɛksɪkjuːt ]
• put (a plan, order, or course of action) into effect.
• "the corporation executed a series of financial deals"
Similar:
carry out,
accomplish,
perform,
implement,
effect,
bring off,
bring about,
achieve,
carry off,
carry through,
complete,
enact,
enforce,
put into effect,
put into practice,
do,
discharge,
prosecute,
engineer,
administer,
attain,
realize,
fulfil,
perpetrate,
pull off,
swing,
cut,
acquit oneself of,
effectuate,
• carry out a sentence of death on (a legally condemned person).
• "he was convicted of treason and executed"
Similar:
put to death,
kill,
hang,
send to the gibbet,
behead,
guillotine,
decapitate,
electrocute,
shoot,
put before a firing squad,
send to the gas chamber,
garrotte,
crucify,
stone to death,
lynch,
send to the electric chair,
send to the chair,
string up,
fry,
bowstring,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French executer, from medieval Latin executare, from Latin exsequi ‘follow up, punish’, from ex- ‘out’ + sequi ‘follow’.
