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executed

[ek-si-kyoot]

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verb (used with object)

to carry out; accomplish: to execute a plan or order.

to perform or do: to execute a maneuver; to execute a gymnastic feat.

to inflict capital punishment on; put to death according to law.

to murder; assassinate.

to produce in accordance with a plan or design: a painting executed by an unknown artist.

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to perform or play (a piece of music).

Law.

to give effect or force to (a law, decree, judicial sentence, etc.).

to carry out the terms of (a will).

to transact or carry through (a contract, mortgage, etc.) in the manner prescribed by law; complete and give validity to (a legal instrument) by fulfilling the legal requirements, as by signing or sealing.

Computers. to run (a program or routine) or to carry out (an instruction in a program).

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verb (used without object)

to perform or accomplish something, as an assigned task.

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Sports. to perform properly the fundamental moves or mechanics of a sport, game, position, or particular play; show smoothness in necessary skills: We just didn't execute defensively.

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Executed is always a great word to know.

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a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English executen < Old French executer < Medieval Latin execūtāre, derivative of Latin execūtus, past participle of ex(s)equī to follow up, carry out (punishment), execute; see ex-¹, sequence

Related forms

ex·e·cut·a·ble, adjective

ex·e·cut·er, noun

non·ex·e·cut·a·ble, adjective

out·ex·e·cute, verb (used with object), -cut·ed, -cut·ing.

pre·ex·e·cute, verb (used with object), -cut·ed, -cut·ing.

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re·ex·e·cute, verb (used with object), -cut·ed, -cut·ing.

un·ex·e·cut·a·ble, adjective

un·ex·e·cut·ed, adjective

un·ex·e·cut·ing, adjective

well-ex·e·cut·ed, adjective

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Synonyms
1. achieve, complete, finish, consummate. 2. See perform. 3. See kill¹. 7a. enforce, administer.

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Example Sentences

Making the gravy can be the great undoing of an otherwise exquisitely planned and executed holiday meal.

What is hard to imagine is that a state might actually admit that it had executed an innocent person.

They were often executed and then hailed by their coreligionists as martyrs.

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Making the gravy can be the great undoing of an otherwise exquisitely planned and executed holiday meal.

What is hard to imagine is that a state might actually admit that it had executed an innocent person.

They were often executed and then hailed by their coreligionists as martyrs.

It would seem to me that the way contracts are written and executed are suspect.

Tens of thousands of supposed witches-mostly women-were executed.

Overway's restoration was executed with remarkable care and precision.

Apple has staked its reputation on tight control of a few carefully designed, faultlessly executed products.

If you do the math, the ideal kick is executed in three seconds or less.

Both were executed by partisans at the end of the second world war.

Visitors can watch demonstrations of old craft and textile techniques executed with period tools in this living village.

Only well-designed research, executed well, can help dis-entangle these things.

His monochromatic work is executed with graphite sticks and gesso washes, merging drawing with painting.

Gacy flooded the market with his stuff before he was executed.

The mandate was grossly underfunded and thus could not be adequately executed.

Departing travellers were searched, and executed if found to be smuggling.

He was captured and executed shortly after her demise.

Populations worldwide would be happier, had some of the defrauders been executed on a guillotine in public.

Many of the pieces were conceived of by artists and then executed in tandem with printmakers.

And because humans are fallible, even well-conceived software will not be perfectly executed.

There is a way to reduce the debt burden, but it has to be done as part of a well thought out and properly executed plan.

Looting politicians were jailed, drug-traffickers executed and public spending sharply cut.

Some theories suggest that the bodies were those of societal outcasts who were executed for their transgressions.

Letters from cranks this poorly conceived and executed routingly get spiked.

Doctors would anesthetize those about to be executed and harvest their organs for reuse.

Corpses of the executed and tortured were displayed in public as warnings, even left hanging as they decomposed.

So the chances of a killer being caught, prosecuted, convicted and then executed during this period were about one in a thousand.

If he returns from his travels, he may be imprisoned or executed.

Anyone advocating having more than one child must be imediately executed for crimes against humanity.

Characters who join as allies can be used in tag team matches that can be executed with up to four human players.

Some of them need to be locked up for their illegal actions and, if it rises to murder, executed for these crimes.

But instructions are no use unless they can be executed, and executed in an appropriate way.

The first time watching family members of the executed mourn the loss of their loved one was uncomfortably difficult.

Maybe poorly executed humor but there was no intent to demean in any way.

Yet the illusion is executed so perfectly that every step looks real, even when you're shown that it is.

War is an act cast by politicians and executed by people.

Benazir idolised her father, who was executed by the military regime two years later.

Even this perfectly executed mission is partly a testament to good luck.

The amount of work that's been done to prove what's going on has been executed by thousands of scientists all over the world.

In fact, many external drives come packaged with easy-to-use backup tools that can be executed with the push of a button.

If such a movement exists, it is badly executed and is being thoroughly routed by the white men and women.

Twelve hours later the man was dragged from a car in his underwear and executed before a few villagers.

All were led to the ceremonial courtyard of the palace and systematically executed.

Spies do not wear uniforms and are typically executed.

When it's executed right, the process concentrates a remarkable array of aromatic and flavorful chemicals.

He asked us for a list of the people that had been executed.

Wexler's mother and nine-year-old brother were caught and executed.

OK, then let the corporations be tried and executed for murder.

The pilot executed a single-engine approach and land.

So he had it torn down and its supervisors executed.

However, he was really a privateer who was executed without proper legal representation.

Many people were imprisoned or executed for expressing free will.

Lamourie said she never got a straight answer about why her site was summarily executed.

Corporate responsibility can also be executed through investor activism in proxy resolutions.

They have been executed to show the arc of prison life for a specific set of prisoners.

Confounded by the obscure file names that popped up, he executed a command that sucked down the entire contents of the directory.

He then executed a prickly legal manoeuvre: he filed for an abandonment.

Face control is executed by men who in a glance can determine your financial profile and celebrity status.

The hackers then executed fraudulent sales of securities and transferred the proceeds from the sale to the mules' accounts.

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Word Origin & History

execute

late 14c., "to carry into effect," from Fr. executer, from M.L. executare, from L. execut-/exsecut-, pp. stem of exequi/exsequi "to follow out" (see execution). Meaning "to inflict capital punishment" is from late 15c. Related: Executed; executing.

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