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Execute

To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

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Verb group 6

Implement 84% connected

That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Implement 84% connected

That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Play 84% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Play 84% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Apply 76% connected

To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Complete 76% connected

Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

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Dispatch 76% connected

To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

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Effect 76% connected

Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

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Effectuate 76% connected

To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.

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Enforce 76% connected

To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands.

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Finish 76% connected

To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

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Hit 76% connected

It.

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Implement 76% connected

That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Kill 76% connected

A kiln.

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Murder 76% connected

The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.

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Off 76% connected

In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:

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Penalize 76% connected

To make penal.

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Punish 76% connected

To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; t…

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Remove 76% connected

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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Sign 76% connected

That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.

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Slay 76% connected

To put to death with a weapon, or by violence; hence, to kill; to put an end to; to destroy.

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Manner of action 36

Appear 76% connected

To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

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Burn 76% connected

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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Carry 76% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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Complete 76% connected

Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

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Conduct 76% connected

The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

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Consummate 76% connected

Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

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Crucify 76% connected

To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

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Cut 76% connected

of Cut

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Declaim 76% connected

To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exerc…

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Direct 76% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Discharge 76% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Dispatch 76% connected

To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Extemporize 76% connected

To speak extempore; especially, to discourse without special preparation; to make an offhand address.

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Function 76% connected

The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.

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Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Hang 76% connected

To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sig…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Improvise 76% connected

To compose, recite, or sing extemporaneously, especially in verse; to extemporize; also, to play upon an instrument, or to act, extemporaneously.

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Interpret 76% connected

To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applie…

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Lead 76% connected

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Operate 76% connected

To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

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Perform 76% connected

To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.

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Practice 76% connected

Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of risi…

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Practise 76% connected

See Practice.

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Premier 76% connected

First; chief; principal; as, the premier place; premier minister.

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Recite 76% connected

To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from reco…

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Rehearse 76% connected

To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.

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Render 76% connected

One who rends.

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Run 76% connected

of Run

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Scamp 76% connected

A rascal; a swindler; a rogue.

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Serenade 76% connected

Music sung or performed in the open air at nights; -- usually applied to musical entertainments given in the open air at night, especially by gentlem…

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Star 76% connected

One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.

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Step 76% connected

To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in successio…

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Stunt 76% connected

To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Executant 74% connected

One who executes or performs; esp., a performer on a musical instrument.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Executant 74% connected

One who executes or performs; esp., a performer on a musical instrument.

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Execution 74% connected

The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.

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Execution 74% connected

The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Executive 74% connected

Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of t…

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Executive 74% connected

Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of t…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Executor 74% connected

One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Executor 74% connected

One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Murder 74% connected

The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Murder 74% connected

The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.

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Accomplish 92% connected

To complete, as time or distance.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Action 92% connected

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fulfil 92% connected

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oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fulfill 92% connected

To fill up; to make full or complete.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Perform 92% connected

To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Run 92% connected

of Run

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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