execution
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Sense: Noun: carrying out
Synonyms:
doing Collocations, carrying out, fulfilling Collocations, fulfillment Collocations , fulfilment , achievement Collocations, carrying through, enactment, implementation Collocations, putting into practice, putting into action, accomplishment Collocations, performance Collocations
Sense: Noun: death by official order
Synonyms:
capital punishment, death penalty, killing, death Collocations, putting to death, assassination, murder Collocations, electrocution, hanging Collocations, gassing, lethal injection, beheading, decapitation, guillotining, crucifixion, shooting Collocations, burning at the stake, electric chair, firing squad, the gallows, the rope, the chopping block, the block, the chair, the ax , the axe , hit Collocations , taking out , bumping off , slaying, gangland execution, political assassination, martyrdom