to execute
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6.1
- verb
- /ˈɛksɪˌkjut/
- Formal
- Many of the men who helped murder Ben's family and friends were executed for their crimes.
- summarily execute
- execute a murderer
- execute leaders
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- The friendly commander executes all the prisoners.
- The victim comes first, the victim after we execute an inmate.
- I, I don't know really, but eventually he was executed in front of a camera.
- All murders are bad, some are worse than others, but you can't execute somebody a little bit.
- And they believe that everyone in that underground church was executed this weekend.
- There is nothing on the left that is this crazy that wants to execute political opponents.
- But we, how many people do you think you saw executed in person?
- The priests therefore connive with the Romans to execute Jesus.
- And he goes, yeah, today's my last day before they execute me.
- Lynching was about black people being executed outside the law.
- There's been this procession of what's the most humane way to execute people?
- Like if you fucking kill these people or execute them, we're going to do the same to you.
- But to me, if they if they said to me, right, Rob, we're looking at somebody to execute bent cops, I'd sign up.
Examples
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General Arnaldo Ochoa, hero of Angola, was executed in 1989 for "drug trafficking and corruption."
Academic text (1994) -
" I cannot allow the captain to be executed while I stand by and do nothing."
Fiction book (1992) -
Ride until dawn... and then execute him.
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Three more minutes before they execute the first hostage.
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Do you want to be executed standing up or sitting down?
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To punish me, my men were executed before my eyes.
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Your captain is still going to be executed unless you can prove his innocence.
Fiction book (1992) -
If he was taken by the rebels and executed, she too would die.
Fiction book (1994) -
What if we just didn't execute people at all?
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In 1945, the court's decision led to several war criminals being executed for their crimes against humanity.
Synonyms
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8.6
To kill a person by tying a rope around their neck and removing support
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8.2
To kill someone by nailing them to a cross
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7.6
To kill someone as a legal punishment
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9.9
To kill someone by tying them to a stake and setting them on fire
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Etymology
Execute comes from Latin parts ex- 'out' and sequi 'to follow', the same root as sequence. Long ago it meant to 'follow out' an order, and that idea came to mean carrying out a death sentence, so execute can mean to put someone to death by law.