[ UK /ˈɛksɪkjˌuːt/ ]
[ US /ˈɛksəkˌjut/ ]
VERB
  1. put in effect
    He actioned the operation
    execute the decision of the people
    carry out a task
  2. murder in a planned fashion
    The Mafioso who collaborated with the police was executed
  3. carry out or perform an action
    John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters
    she did a little dance
    the skater executed a triple pirouette
  4. sign in the presence of witnesses
    The President executed the treaty
  5. carry out the legalities of
    execute a will or a deed
  6. carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
    the computer executed the instruction
    run a new program on the Mac
    Run the dishwasher
  7. kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment
    In some states, criminals are executed
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How To Use execute In A Sentence

  • The play is a little overlong and would benefit from cuts, but each scene is interesting and changes are smoothly executed.
  • The Windows allows a computer user to execute multiple programs simultaneously.
  • Calis, and so on the mondaie following, [Sidenote: Iohn Hall executed.] he was drawne from the Tower to Tiburne, and there hanged, bowelled, headed, and quartered: his head being sent to Calis there to be set vp, where the duke was murthered. Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
  • Swiss counter-intelligence was very effective, too, and 387 spies, mostly Swiss but including 100 Germans, were captured and brought to trial of whom 17 were executed.
  • What about the gorgeous symmetry of a well executed hexadecagon, or the quirky lurch of the isotoxal decagram. Cheeseburger Gothic » The Ladies Blue Room. Or something.
  • This capricious beast had been trained to caracole, and his owner had taken to impressing girls by making the beast execute this pretty trick whenever he saw one. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
  • Unless this happens, the transfer agent doesn't have the authority to remove the legend and execute the trade in the marketplace.
  • A day later, the state of Georgia executed Troy Davis, a black man accused of killing a white police officer more than 20 years ago, despite what GOP Rep. Bob Barr called the conviction's reliance on "the skimpiest of evidence," and, in the words of former FBI director William Sessions, "pervasive, persistent doubts" about Davis' guilt. Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup
  • The hi-tech visions appear as fully executed architectonic meditations, linking architecture with landscape and making ground-breaking technology an important component of the program. Grand Illusions on the Hudson
  • His escape meant that he had to be figuratively executed, with the result that the people, ideas, and culture associated with him were outlawed and destroyed in his stead.
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