| execution | | |
| n. (act) | 1. capital punishment, death penalty, executing, execution | putting a condemned person to death. |
| ~ corporal punishment | the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime. |
| ~ burning at the stake, burning | execution by fire. |
| ~ hanging | a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead.; "in those days the hanging of criminals was a public entertainment" |
| ~ electrocution, burning | execution by electricity. |
| ~ beheading, decapitation | execution by cutting off the victim's head. |
| ~ crucifixion | the act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross. |
| n. (act) | 2. carrying into action, carrying out, execution, performance | the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it.; "they criticised his performance as mayor"; "experience generally improves performance" |
| ~ action | something done (usually as opposed to something said).; "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions" |
| ~ specific performance | the performance of a legal contract as specified by its terms. |
| ~ linguistic performance | (linguistics) a speaker's actual use of language in real situations; what the speaker actually says, including grammatical errors and other non-linguistic features such as hesitations and other disfluencies (contrasted with linguistic competence). |
| ~ mechanics, mechanism | the technical aspects of doing something.; "a mechanism of social control"; "mechanisms of communication"; "the mechanics of prose style" |
| ~ officiation | the performance of a religious or ceremonial or public duty. |
| n. (process) | 3. execution, instruction execution | (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer. |
| ~ physical process, process | a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states.; "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls" |
| ~ computer science, computing | the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures. |
| ~ batch processing | the serial execution of computer programs. |
| ~ data processing | (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information. |
| ~ concurrent execution, multiprogramming | the execution of two or more computer programs by a single computer. |
| n. (communication) | 4. execution, execution of instrument | (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. |
| ~ subscription | the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document).; "the deed was attested by the subscription of his signature" |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| n. (communication) | 5. execution, writ of execution | 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. |
| ~ court order | a writ issued by a court of law requiring a person to do something or to refrain from doing something. |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| n. (act) | 6. carrying out, execution, implementation | the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order.; "the agency was created for the implementation of the policy" |
| ~ enforcement | the act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to. |
| n. (act) | 7. execution, murder, slaying | unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being. |
| ~ homicide | the killing of a human being by another human being. |
| ~ assassination | murder of a public figure by surprise attack. |
| ~ bloodshed, gore | the shedding of blood resulting in murder.; "he avenged the bloodshed of his kinsmen" |
| ~ contract killing | a murder carried out on agreement with a hired killer. |
| ~ parricide | the murder of your own father or mother. |
| ~ mariticide | the murder of a husband by his wife. |
| ~ fratricide | the murder of your sibling. |
| ~ uxoricide | the murder of a wife by her husband. |
| ~ filicide | the murder of your own son or daughter. |
| ~ liquidation, elimination | the murder of a competitor. |
| ~ carnage, mass murder, massacre, butchery, slaughter | the savage and excessive killing of many people. |
| ~ lynching | putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law. |
| ~ regicide | the act of killing a king. |
| ~ dry-gulching | the act of killing from ambush. |
| ~ hit | a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate.; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit" |
| ~ infanticide | murdering an infant. |
| ~ shoot-down | murder by shooting someone down in cold blood. |
| ~ tyrannicide | killing a tyrant. |
| ~ thuggee | murder and robbery by thugs. |
| killing | | |
| n. (event) | 1. killing, violent death | an event that causes someone to die. |
| ~ fatality, human death | a death resulting from an accident or a disaster.; "a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities" |
| n. (act) | 2. kill, killing, putting to death | the act of terminating a life. |
| ~ ending, termination, conclusion | the act of ending something.; "the termination of the agreement" |
| ~ coup de grace, deathblow | the blow that kills (usually mercifully). |
| ~ death | the act of killing.; "he had two deaths on his conscience" |
| ~ euthanasia, mercy killing | the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness). |
| ~ homicide | the killing of a human being by another human being. |
| ~ despatch, dispatch | killing a person or animal. |
| ~ fell | the act of felling something (as a tree). |
| ~ self-annihilation, self-destruction, suicide | the act of killing yourself.; "it is a crime to commit suicide" |
| ~ slaughter | the killing of animals (as for food). |
| ~ poisoning | the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill. |
| ~ suffocation, asphyxiation | killing by depriving of oxygen. |
| ~ ritual killing, sacrifice | the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity. |
| ~ electrocution | killing by electric shock. |
| ~ beheading, decapitation | killing by cutting off the head. |
| ~ genocide, race murder, racial extermination | systematic killing of a racial or cultural group. |
| n. (possession) | 3. cleanup, killing | a very large profit. |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ earnings, net income, net profit, profit, profits, lucre, net | the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses). |
| adj. | 4. killing, sidesplitting | very funny.; "a killing joke"; "sidesplitting antics" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ humorous, humourous | full of or characterized by humor.; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein" |
| slaying | | |
| kill | | |
| n. (act) | 1. kill | the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile.; "the pilot reported two kills during the mission" |
| ~ destruction, devastation | the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists. |
| v. (contact) | 2. kill | cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly.; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays" |
| ~ buy the farm, cash in one's chips, croak, decease, die, drop dead, give-up the ghost, kick the bucket, pass away, perish, snuff it, expire, pop off, conk, exit, choke, go, pass | pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" |
| ~ annihilate, eradicate, decimate, wipe out, carry off, eliminate, extinguish | kill in large numbers.; "the plague wiped out an entire population" |
| ~ decimate | kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies. |
| ~ drown | kill by submerging in water.; "He drowned the kittens" |
| ~ massacre, mow down, slaughter | kill a large number of people indiscriminately.; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda" |
| ~ erase, wipe out | remove from memory or existence.; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915" |
| ~ butcher, slaughter | kill (animals) usually for food consumption.; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter" |
| ~ poison | kill with poison.; "She poisoned her husband" |
| ~ lapidate, stone | kill by throwing stones at.; "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock" |
| ~ poison | kill by its poison.; "This mushrooms can poison" |
| ~ commit suicide | kill oneself.; "the terminally ill patient committed suicide" |
| ~ dispatch | kill without delay.; "the traitor was dispatched by the conspirators" |
| ~ vaporize, zap | kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting.; "in this computer game, space travellers are vaporized by aliens" |
| ~ kill | cause the death of, without intention.; "She was killed in the collision of three cars" |
| ~ sacrifice | kill or destroy.; "The animals were sacrificed after the experiment"; "The general had to sacrifice several soldiers to save the regiment" |
| ~ take off | prove fatal.; "The disease took off" |
| ~ tomahawk | kill with a tomahawk. |
| ~ destroy, put down | put (an animal) to death.; "The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid"; "the sick cat had to be put down" |
| ~ saber, sabre | kill with a saber. |
| ~ overlay, overlie | kill by lying on.; "The sow overlay her piglets" |
| ~ brain | kill by smashing someone's skull. |
| ~ put to sleep, put away | kill gently, as with an injection.; "the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep" |
| ~ do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralize, waste | get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing.; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized" |
| ~ exterminate, kill off | kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many.; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe" |
| ~ asphyxiate, suffocate, smother | deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing.; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor" |
| ~ strangle, strangulate, throttle | kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air.; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes" |
| ~ behead, decapitate, decollate | cut the head of.; "the French King was beheaded during the Revolution" |
| ~ impale, stake | kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole.; "the enemies were impaled and left to die" |
| ~ dismember | separate the limbs from the body.; "the tiger dismembered the tourist" |
| ~ martyr | kill as a martyr.; "Saint Sebastian was martyred" |
| ~ shed blood | kill violently.; "They will never stop shedding the blood of their enemies" |
| ~ bump off, murder, off, slay, polish off, dispatch, remove, hit | kill intentionally and with premeditation.; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered" |
| ~ assassinate | murder; especially of socially prominent persons.; "Anwar Sadat was assassinated because many people did not like his peace politics with Israel" |
| ~ execute, put to death | kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment.; "In some states, criminals are executed" |
| ~ draw and quarter, quarter, draw | pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him.; "in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes" |
| ~ lynch | kill without legal sanction.; "The blood-thirsty mob lynched the alleged killer of the child" |
| ~ pip, shoot | kill by firing a missile. |
| ~ electrocute, fry | kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair.; "The serial killer was electrocuted" |
| v. (social) | 3. defeat, kill, shoot down, vote down, vote out | thwart the passage of.; "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal" |
| ~ negative, veto, blackball | vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent.; "The President vetoed the bill" |
| v. (change) | 4. kill, stamp out | end or extinguish by forceful means.; "Stamp out poverty!" |
| ~ terminate, end | bring to an end or halt.; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" |
| v. (stative) | 5. kill | be fatal.; "cigarettes kill"; "drunken driving kills" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| v. (perception) | 6. kill | be the source of great pain for.; "These new shoes are killing me!" |
| ~ ache, hurt, suffer | feel physical pain.; "Were you hurting after the accident?" |
| v. (emotion) | 7. kill | overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration.; "The comedian was so funny, he was killing me!" |
| ~ overwhelm, sweep over, whelm, overpower, overcome, overtake | overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli. |
| v. (contact) | 8. kill | hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games.; "She killed the ball" |
| ~ athletics, sport | an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition. |
| ~ hit | cause to move by striking.; "hit a ball" |
| ~ kill | hit with great force.; "He killed the ball" |
| v. (contact) | 9. kill | hit with great force.; "He killed the ball" |
| ~ athletics, sport | an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition. |
| ~ hit | cause to move by striking.; "hit a ball" |
| ~ kill | hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games.; "She killed the ball" |
| v. (contact) | 10. kill | deprive of life.; "AIDS has killed thousands in Africa" |
| ~ kill | cause the death of, without intention.; "She was killed in the collision of three cars" |
| ~ strike down | cause to die, especially suddenly.; "The disease struck down many young men in the village" |
| v. (contact) | 11. kill | cause the death of, without intention.; "She was killed in the collision of three cars" |
| ~ kill | cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly.; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays" |
| ~ kill | deprive of life.; "AIDS has killed thousands in Africa" |
| ~ electrocute | kill by electric shock.; "She dropped the hair dryer into the bathtub and was instantly electrocuted" |
| v. (consumption) | 12. belt down, bolt down, down, drink down, kill, pop, pour down, toss off | drink down entirely.; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work" |
| ~ drink, imbibe | take in liquids.; "The patient must drink several liters each day"; "The children like to drink soda" |
| v. (change) | 13. kill, obliterate, wipe out | mark for deletion, rub off, or erase.; "kill these lines in the President's speech" |
| ~ take away, take out | take out or remove.; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables" |
| v. (change) | 14. kill | tire out completely.; "The daily stress of her work is killing her" |
| ~ exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up, beat | wear out completely.; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" |
| ~ kill | cause to cease operating.; "kill the engine" |
| v. (change) | 15. kill | cause to cease operating.; "kill the engine" |
| ~ kill | destroy a vitally essential quality of or in.; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods" |
| ~ kill | tire out completely.; "The daily stress of her work is killing her" |
| ~ switch off, turn off, turn out, cut | cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch.; "Turn off the stereo, please"; "cut the engine"; "turn out the lights" |
| v. (change) | 16. kill | destroy a vitally essential quality of or in.; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods" |
| ~ kill | cause to cease operating.; "kill the engine" |
| ~ destroy, destruct | do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of.; "The fire destroyed the house" |
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