execute

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of EXECUTE

to carry out effectively <the agency charged with executing the nation's drug laws>

Synonyms administer, apply, execute, implement

Related Words bring about, effect, effectuate; discharge, fulfill (or fulfil), render; cite, invoke; enact, legislate; honor, observe, uphold; prosecute; promulgate

Near Antonyms disregard, ignore, neglect

to carry through (as a process) to completion <when you execute this dance step, try to keep your arms a little higher>

Synonyms accomplish, achieve, bring off, carry off, carry out, commit, compass, do, execute, follow through (with), fulfill (or fulfil), make, negotiate, perpetrate, prosecute, pull off, put through

Related Words 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

Near Antonyms fail; skimp, slight, slur

to put to death deliberately <during the war those convicted of desertion were summarily executed>

Synonyms assassinate, bump off, croak [slang], dispatch, do in, execute, get, ice [slang], knock off, liquidate, neutralize, off [slang], put away, rub out, slay, snuff, take out, terminate, whack [slang]

Related Words 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

Near Antonyms animate, raise, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revive

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