Synonyms of executes

executes

verb

present tense third-person singular of execute

1

as in enforces

to carry out effectively

the agency charged with executing the nation's drug laws

Synonyms & Similar Words

• enforces
• implements
• administers
• applies
• invokes
• fulfills
• enacts
• renders
• cites
• effectuates
• brings about
• effects
• upholds
• prosecutes
• observes
• honors
• legislates
• promulgates
• discharges

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ignores
• neglects
• disregards

2

as in performs

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

• performs
• fulfills
• accomplishes
• achieves
• implements
• does
• makes
• prosecutes
• commits
• negotiates
• completes
• carries out
• perpetrates
• goes through
• realizes
• follows through (with)
• finishes
• carries off
• pulls off
• puts through
• brings off
• attains
• practices
• effectuates
• brings about
• effects
• repeats
• works (at)
• reenacts
• engages (in)
• compasses
• nails
• ends
• actualizes
• aces
• winds up
• reduplicates

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• fails
• slurs
• slights
• skimps

3

as in assassinates

to put to death deliberately

during the war those convicted of desertion were summarily executed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assassinates
• murders
• slays
• kills
• terminates
• neutralizes
• dispatches
• gets
• liquidates
• destroys
• slaughters
• whacks
• shoots
• snuffs
• croaks
• rubs out
• offs
• takes out
• does away with
• puts away
• knocks off
• does in
• ices
• bumps off
• eliminates
• cuts down
• blows away
• claims
• smites
• eradicates
• shoots down
• zaps
• annihilates
• blots out
• exterminates
• carries off
• mows (down)
• massacres
• wipes out
• fells
• butchers

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• restores
• raises
• animates
• revives
• resurrects
• resuscitates

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of executes

This suspect returns back to his car, retrieves his handgun, walks back over to the victim, who’s trying to crawl away with her life, and executes her. — Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026

The aircraft executes anti-surface warfare (ASuW) through elegant communications and data link systems. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026

Gays for Gaza marches in support of a government that executes gay men. — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2026

How can Christians, who both grieve and celebrate the sacrifice of Jesus, support a flawed justice system that inevitably executes innocents? — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026

Some of the chip designs that the company executes, like those which animate an iPhone or a Mac, are inestimably precious trade secrets. — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

Teams built one system that both decides what to do and executes it. — Alex Salazar, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026

The City Council will receive an update on the project’s status and review the details before Charlotte executes the agreement, Graham said. — Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 24 Sep. 2026

When 32-year-old Alom teaches one of her students a move and the student successfully executes it, the others applaud and cheer her on. — Maykel Gonzalez, Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2026