Meaning & use
execute
To carry out or put into effect a plan, order, or course of action.
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The team executed the rescue plan flawlessly despite the difficult weather conditions outside.
She executed a perfect dive, earning the highest score of the competition that day.
A note on using this word
Execute suggests skillful or precise completion of a plan; it also has a distinct legal sense meaning to put someone to death.
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Another way to use it
2. verb
To kill someone as a legal punishment for a crime.
The prisoner was executed at dawn after years spent on death row.
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