execution

execution
I
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [The carrying out of instructions or plans]
Syn. fulfilling, accomplishment, doing; see achievement 1 , 2 , performance 1 .
2. [Death by official order]
Syn. capital punishment, killing, electrocution, hanging, gassing, lethal injection, beheading, decapitation, guillotining, strangulation, contract killing, strangling, crucifixion, martyrdom, impalement, shooting, burning at the stake, death penalty, ultimate penalty, electric chair, firing squad, the gallows, the rope, the block, the chair*, the ax*.
II
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
1. performance of a duty implementation, discharge, accomplishment, fulfillment, achievement, completion, consummation.
2. putting to death death penalty, capital punishment, killing, hanging, beheading, lethal injection, electrocution, slaying, lynching, gassing, guillotining.
3. style manner, technique, touch, performance.
III
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The act of beginning and carrying through to completion: discharge, effectuation, performance, prosecution. See DO. 2. One's artistic conception as shown by the way in which something such as a dramatic role or musical composition is rendered: interpretation, performance, reading, realization, rendering, rendition. See PERFORMING ARTS.

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