Synonyms and Antonyms of execute
1
to carry out effectively
- the agency charged with executing the nation's drug laws
2
to carry through (as a process) to completion
- when you execute this dance step, try to keep your arms a little higher
accomplish, achieve, bring off, carry off, carry out, commit, compass, do, follow through (with), fulfill (or fulfil), make, negotiate, perform, perpetrate, prosecute, pull off, put through
bring about, effect, effectuate, implement
ace, nail
engage (in), practice (also practise)
work (at)
reduplicate, reenact, repeat
actualize, attain, realize
complete, end, finish, wind up
3
to put to death deliberately
- during the war those convicted of desertion were summarily executed
assassinate, bump off, croak [slang], dispatch, do in, get, ice [slang], knock off, liquidate, murder, neutralize, off [slang], put away, rub out, slay, snuff, take out, terminate, whack [slang]
blow away, shoot, shoot down
blot out, carry off, claim, cut down, destroy, fell, kill, smite, zap
butcher, massacre, mow (down), slaughter
annihilate, eliminate, eradicate, exterminate, wipe out
