Synonyms for execution
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
2. Capital punishment
3. Performance
performance, completion, implementation, operation, compliance, consummation, accomplishment, discharge, achievement, effectuation
Definitions
- n. 1
The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
- n. 2
The state of being accomplished.
The mission's successful execution lifted the troops' morale.
- n. 3
The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated.
Related words
- Word family
- execute executive executor
- Phrases
- execution cycle writ of execution
Forms
- Plural
- executions → murders, beheadings, killings, slayings…
Example sentences
- killing The bus fell off the cliff, killing all 10 aboard.
- murder You don't have an alibi for the day of the murder.
- beheading She committed suicide by poison to avoid beheading.
- performance The criticism of the actor's performance was just.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| execution | steady | |
| killing | rising | |
| murder | rising | |
| slaying | rising | |
| beheading | rising | |
| performance | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- murder2
- 7 letters
- killing2, hanging2, slaying2
- 9 letters
- operation4, discharge2, beheading3, pursuance
- 10 letters
- expression3, completion3, compliance3
- 11 letters
- performance3, enforcement3, achievement3
- 12 letters
- consummation4, perpetration, effectuation
- 14 letters
- administration5, implementation5, accomplishment4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (murder2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- exécution
- Italiano
- esecuzione
- Español
- ejecución
- Deutsch
- Abarbeitung