Synonyms of executed

executed

verb

past tense of execute

1

as in enforced

to carry out effectively

the agency charged with executing the nation's drug laws

Synonyms & Similar Words

• enforced
• implemented
• administered
• applied
• effected
• rendered
• invoked
• fulfilled
• enacted
• brought about
• cited
• effectuated
• prosecuted
• upheld
• honored
• observed
• promulgated
• discharged
• legislated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ignored
• neglected
• disregarded

2

as in performed

to carry through (as a process) to completion

when you execute this dance step, try to keep your arms a little higher

Synonyms & Similar Words

• performed
• accomplished
• fulfilled
• achieved
• made
• did
• implemented
• prosecuted
• committed
• perpetrated
• completed
• carried out
• negotiated
• finished
• carried off
• went through
• realized
• pulled off
• effected
• put through
• brought off
• practiced
• brought about
• attained
• effectuated
• compassed
• followed through (with)
• nailed
• repeated
• worked (at)
• engaged (in)
• ended
• reenacted
• aced
• actualized
• wound up
• reduplicated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• failed
• slighted
• slurred
• skimped

3

as in assassinated

to put to death deliberately

during the war those convicted of desertion were summarily executed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assassinated
• murdered
• killed
• dispatched
• terminated
• neutralized
• liquidated
• slaughtered
• destroyed
• got
• snuffed
• whacked
• offed
• slew
• put away
• knocked off
• iced
• croaked
• took out
• did in
• rubbed out
• bumped off
• did away with
• claimed
• eliminated
• butchered
• shot
• massacred
• shot down
• carried off
• cut down
• felled
• eradicated
• blotted out
• exterminated
• annihilated
• wiped out
• blew away
• zapped
• smote
• mowed (down)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• restored
• raised
• revived
• animated
• resurrected
• resuscitated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of executed

Meanwhile, Iran’s state TV said a man was executed after being convicted on charges of spying for Israel. — ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026

The following August, six Israeli hostages were executed by Hamas in a tunnel in Rafah, after more than three hundred days in captivity. — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026

His daughters came to believe that he had been taken into military custody, tortured and executed. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026

The organization says that since March 18, authorities have executed 31 protesters — 29 connected to the January protests and two associated with Woman, Life, Freedom. — Pegah Banihashemi, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026

The agency also notably conceived and executed the record-breaking 10-year Billy Joel residency at Madison Square Garden. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026

Jefferey Lee's life was spared in June Lee had been set to be executed by the controversial method of nitrogen gas on June 11. — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026

Trial runs were executed to ensure nothing unforeseen would happen. — Mark Rice-Oxley, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2026

The exhibition is an exciting intervention into the history of painting surveys, ambitious in scope yet thoughtfully executed in both its installation and its creation of new scholarship. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026