execute
verb (used with object), ex·e·cut·ed, ex·e·cut·ing.
verb (used without object), ex·e·cut·ed, ex·e·cut·ing.
Origin of execute
Synonym study
Synonyms for execute
Examples from the Web for executed
Contemporary Examples of executed
Yet the email references the 1970s, “when police officers were ambushed and executed on a regular basis.”
The families had gathered that Sunday to remember Ali Bazzal, a soldier whom the Nusra Front declared they had executed on Dec. 6.
Last week, Robert Wayne Holsey of Georgia and Paul Goodwin of Missouri were executed within just a few hours of each other.
Despite Atkins, people with IQs lower than 70 have since been executed.
The way it was executed was maybe not satisfying to people, and it was in no way tied up in a bow.
Michael C. Hall on Going Drag for ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ and Exorcising ‘Dexter’Marlow Stern
December 4, 2014
Historical Examples of executed
Their hands were tied and they were to be executed in a few moments.
Ancient ManHendrik Willem van Loon
The national verdict of 1896 has for the most part been executed.
His proposal was received with acclamations, and executed with the swiftness of thought.
The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper
Wills and other private deeds may of course be executed by phonograph.
Heroes of the TelegraphJ. Munro
Tawell was executed, and the notoriety of the case brought the telegraph into repute.
Heroes of the TelegraphJ. Munro