execute
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɛksɪˌkjuːt/
execute (executes, present participle executing; past and past participle executed)
- (transitive) To kill as punishment for capital crimes.
- There are certain states where it is lawful to execute prisoners convicted of certain crimes.
- (transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
- Your orders have been executed, sir!
- I'll execute your orders as soon as this meeting is adjourned.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 9”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- Why delays / His hand to execute what his decree / Fixed on this day?
- (transitive) To perform.
- to execute a difficult piece of music brilliantly
- to execute a turn in ballet
- (transitive, legal) To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.
- to execute a contract
- (transitive, computing) To start, launch or run
- to execute a program
- (intransitive, computing) To run, usually successfully.
- The program executed, but data problems were discovered.
- French: exécuter, mettre à mort
- German: hinrichten
- Italian: giustiziare
- Portuguese: executar
- Russian: казни́ть
- Spanish: ejecutar, ajusticiar
- Portuguese: executar
- Russian: исполня́ть
- Spanish: ejecutar
- Russian: выполнять
- French: exécuter
- German: ausführen
- Italian: lanciare
- Portuguese: executar, rodar
- Russian: прогонять
- Spanish: ejecutar, arrancar
- Russian: подписывать
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