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Execution

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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Broader term 5

Action 76% 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;…

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Enforcement 76% connected

The act of enforcing; compulsion.

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Homicide 76% connected

The killing of one human being by another.

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Process 76% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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Subscription 76% connected

The act of subscribing.

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Narrower term 26

Assassination 76% connected

The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.

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Beheading 76% connected

of Behead

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Bloodshed 76% connected

The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.

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Burning 76% connected

of Burn

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Butchery 76% connected

The business of a butcher.

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Carnage 76% connected

Flesh of slain animals or men.

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Crucifixion 76% connected

The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.

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Decapitation 76% connected

The act of beheading; beheading.

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Elimination 76% connected

The act of expelling or throwing off

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Filicide 76% connected

The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.

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Fratricide 76% connected

The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.

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Gore 76% connected

Dirt; mud.

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Hanging 76% connected

of Hang

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Hit 76% connected

It.

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Infanticide 76% connected

The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder.

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Liquidation 76% connected

The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated.

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Lynching 76% connected

of Lynch

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Massacre 76% connected

The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, t…

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Mechanics 76% connected

That science, or branch of applied mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on bodies.

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Mechanism 76% connected

The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation of the parts of anythi…

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Parricide 76% connected

Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor.

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Regicide 76% connected

One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng.Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death.

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Slaughter 76% connected

The act of killing.

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Thuggee 76% connected

The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs.

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Tyrannicide 76% connected

The act of killing a tyrant.

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Uxoricide 76% connected

The murder of a wife by her husband.

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Derivationally related 4

Execute 74% connected

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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Execute 74% connected

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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Remove 74% connected

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

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Remove 74% connected

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

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Synonym 5

Executing 92% connected

of Execute

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Implementation 92% connected

Turning a plan or policy into actual practice.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Murder 92% connected

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

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Performance 92% connected

The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance o…

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Slaying 92% connected

of Slay

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