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Definition of executing : of Execute

Synonyms:

implementation, carrying out, death penalty, murder, capital punishment, performance, execution of instrument, writ of execution, instruction execution, carrying into action, execution

concluding, arriving, finalizing, filling, closing, achieving, fulfilling, ending, graduating, integrating, terminating, unifying, completing, culminating, consummating, accomplishing, finishing

exterminating, removing, massacring, asphyxiating, drowning, purging, dispatching, killing, eliminating, murdering, slaughtering, icing, smiting, sacrificing, butchering, putting down, hanging, putting to sleep, assassinating, strangling, snuffing, slaying, suffocating, liquidating, doing away with, chilling, doing in, smothering

dominating, managing, bridling, presiding, ruling, ordering, disciplining, leading, superintending, commanding, governing, overseeing, steering, directing, piloting, supervising, controlling, administering, harnessing

bringing about

cultivating, constructing, manufacturing, fabricating, inventing, fathering, creating, forming, developing, building, mothering

endeavoring, conducting, perpetrating, operating, officiating, appearing, functioning, acting, doing, exercising, transacting, moving, laboring, behaving, working, performing, reacting, comporting

engineering, enforcing, motivating, inspiring, inducing, driving, forcing, causing, engendering, evoking, producing, giving rise to, generating, effecting, provoking, making, originating, eliciting

castigating, trying, afflicting, avenging, reprising, distressing, incarcerating, chastising, persecuting, correcting, pillorying, burdening, fining, chastening, agonizing, judging, imprisoning, lambasting, penalizing, punishing, keelhauling, confining, sentencing, anguishing, crucifying, torturing

Usage examples:

• General Meade continued his retreat to Centreville, and then, seemingly ashamed- as well he might be- of his flight, would have retraced his steps and pushed back the insolent foe, but he was prevented from executing his plans by a heavy rain- storm, which began on the sixteenth. - "Three Years in the Federal Cavalry", Willard Glazier.
• As that abdication left Holland for twelve years under a regency, that is to say, under the direct influence of the Emperor, according to the terms of the constitution, there was no need of that union for executing every measure he might have in view against trade and against England, since his will was supreme in Holland. - "Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, v10", Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne.
• A glance behind him, as he walked away with Dr. Middleton, showed Clara, cunning creature that she was, airily executing her malicious graces in the preliminary courtesies with Mrs. Mountstuart. - "The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith", George Meredith.