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Executing   /ˈɛksəkjˌutɪŋ/   Listen
Executing

noun
1.
Putting a condemned person to death.  Synonyms: capital punishment, death penalty, execution.


Execute

verb
(past & past part. executed; pres. part. executing)
1.
Kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment.  Synonym: put to death.
2.
Murder in a planned fashion.
3.
Put in effect.  Synonyms: accomplish, action, carry out, carry through, fulfil, fulfill.  "Execute the decision of the people" , "He actioned the operation"
4.
Carry out the legalities of.
5.
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"
6.
Carry out or perform an action.  Synonyms: do, perform.  "The skater executed a triple pirouette" , "She did a little dance"
7.
Sign in the presence of witnesses.





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"Executing" Quotes from Famous Books



... employed his Time since Sun-rising; some of them answer, that having been chosen as Arbiters between two Persons they have composed their Differences, and made them Friends; some, that they have been executing the Orders of their Parents; and others, that they have either found out something new by their own Application, or learnt it from the Instruction of their Fellows: But if there happens to be any one ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... accordingly as the combat became more or less furious. "One, two, three, and under; one, two, three, and over;" "robber's cuts;" "sixes"—the encounter had an abundance of technical terms. And each performer was allowed a fair share of the feats accomplished: the combatants took turns in executing the strangest exploits. Alternately they were beaten down on one knee, even lower still, till they crawled serpent-wise about the boards; they leaped into the air to avoid chopping blows at their lower members; they suddenly span round on their ...
— A Book of the Play - Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character • Dutton Cook
... it not been for Watt's inherited and acquired manual dexterity, it is probable that the steam engine could never have been perfected, so often did failure of experiments arise solely because it was in that day impossible to find men capable of executing the plans of the inventor. His problem was to teach them by example how to obtain the exact work required when the tools of precision of our day were unknown and the men themselves were only workmen of the crudest kind. Many of the most delicate parts, even ...
— James Watt • Andrew Carnegie
... sailors at work, which I noticed were not always promptly obeyed; and frequently the men might be heard suggesting contrary modes of action, until a hubbub of voices would arise disputing about the proper plan for executing the work. ...
— The Boy Tar • Mayne Reid
... could not have it in a glass bottle, for in that case the acid would be saturated with silex, and incapable of executing an engraving; the same thing would happen were the acid kept in vessels of porcelain or earthen-ware; this acid must therefore be both prepared and preserved in ...
— Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 • Jane Marcet


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