Word Meanings - EXECUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To perform, as a piece of music, either on an instrument or with the voice; as, to execute a difficult part brilliantly. Syn. -- To accomplish; effect; fulfill; achieve; consummate; finish; complete. See Accomplish. (more info) to the end, pursue;

Additional info about word: EXECUTE

To perform, as a piece of music, either on an instrument or with the voice; as, to execute a difficult part brilliantly. Syn. -- To accomplish; effect; fulfill; achieve; consummate; finish; complete. See Accomplish. (more info) to the end, pursue; ex out + sequi to follow. See Second, Sue to 1. To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform; Why delays His hand to execute what his decree Fixed on this day Milton. 2. To complete, as a legal instrument; to perform what is required to give validity to, as by signing and perhaps sealing and delivering; as, to execute a deed, lease, mortgage, will, etc. 3. To give effect to; to do what is provided or required by; to perform the requirements or stimulations of; as, to execute a decree, judgment, writ, or process. 4. To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor. 5. Too put to death illegally; to kill. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXECUTE)

• Consummate Complete
• perfect
• execute
• finish
• accomplish
• conclude
• seal
• end
• Discharge
• Liberate
• empty
• dismiss
• acquit
• release
• free
• perform
• send away
• Dispatch
• Expedite
• send
• accelerate
• hasten
• Elaborate
• Execute
• forge
• prepare
• concoct
• mature
• Fulfil
• Fill
• complete
• discharge
• verify
• achieve
• effect

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXECUTE)

• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to EXECUTE)

• ACQUIT
  Acquitted; set free; rid of. Shak.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• CONCLUDENCY
  Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion. Sir M. Hale.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• MATURENESS
  The state or quality of being mature; maturity.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• FINISHER
  1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
• PERFECT
  Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence , a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord , a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly
• CONCOCTER
  One who concocts.
• ACCOMPLISHED
  1. Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact. 2. Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain. They . . . show themselves accomplished
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• FORGETTINGLY
  By forgetting.
• COMPLETE
  Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil. Syn. -- See Whole. (more info) 1. Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficienty; entire; perfect; consummate.
• DISMISS
  1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• FORGETFUL
  1. Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory. 2. Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. Heb. xiii. 2.
• FETTERLESS
  Free from fetters. Marston.
• FORGETFULNESS
  1. The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind. 2. Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion. A sweet forgetfulness of human care. Pope. 3. Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention;
• LIMATURE
  1. The act of filing. 2. That which is filed off; filings. Johnson.
• RING ARMATURE
  An armature for a dynamo or motor having the conductors wound on a ring.
• INCOMPLETE
  Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower. Incomplete equation , an equation some of whose terms are wanting; or one in which the coefficient of some one or more of the powers of the unknown quantity is equal to 0. (more info)