Execution Synonyms and Antonyms

ĕksĭ-kyo͝oshən
The carrying out of instructions or plans
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. fulfilling
  2. accomplishment
  3. instruction execution
  4. doing
  5. music-making
Antonyms:
  1. abandoning
  2. leaving
  3. forgetting
  4. ignorance
  5. disregard
  6. failure
  7. neglect
Death by official order
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. electrocution
  2. decapitation
  3. killing
  4. effectuation
  5. capital-punishment
  6. strangulation
  7. performance
  8. death penalty
  9. hanging
  10. discharge
  11. gassing
  12. lethal-injection
  13. beheading
  14. guillotining
  15. contract killing
  16. accomplishment
  17. strangling
  18. completion
  19. crucifixion
  20. consummation
  21. martyrdom
  22. impalement
  23. shooting
  24. doing
  25. burning at the stake
  26. murder
  27. executing
  28. ultimate penalty
  29. electric-chair
  30. firing-squad
  31. fulfillment
  32. the gallows
  33. garrote
  34. the rope
  35. the block
  36. guillotine
  37. the chair
  38. the ax
  39. lapidation
  40. noyade
  41. prosecution
  42. perpetration
  43. realization
  44. transaction
  45. slaying
Antonyms:
  1. birth
One's artistic conception as shown by the way in which something such as a dramatic role or musical composition is rendered
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. interpretation
  2. performance
  3. reading
  4. realization
  5. rendering
  6. rendition
  7. cantando
  8. pianism
The act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. carrying-out
  2. implementation
  3. performance
  4. carrying into action
A routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. writ of execution
(law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. execution of instrument

Words Related to Execution

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Execution Sentence Examples

  • Keep an eye on her and stay my execution order for now.

  • No corpse can be attached, taken in execution, arrested or detained for debt.

  • If there be no appeal, that judge is to give execution to the episcopal award.

  • Laws to secure this object have been passed, but funds are lacking for their execution on a sufficiently large scale.

  • Everything not connected with the execution of the prince's orders did not interest and did not even exist for Alpatych.

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