execute

See also: exécuté and exécute

EnglishEdit

From Old French executer (French exécuter), from Latin exsecutus, past participle of exsequor, from ex- (“out”) + sequor (“to follow”).

execute (third-person singular simple present executes, present participle executing, simple past and past participle executed)

(transitive) To kill as punishment for capital crimes.
There are certain states where it is lawful to execute prisoners convicted of certain crimes.
(transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
Your orders have been executed, sir!

I'll execute your orders as soon as this meeting is adjourned.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 9”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
  Why delays / His hand to execute what his decree / Fixed on this day?
(transitive) To perform.
to execute a difficult piece of music brilliantly

to execute a turn in ballet
(transitive, law) To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.
to execute a contract
(transitive, computing) To start, launch or run
to execute a program

Synonyms: start, launch, run, open
(intransitive, computing) To run, usually successfully.
The program executed, but data problems were discovered.

to kill as punishment

Arabic: أَعْدَمَ‎ (ʾaʿdama)
Azerbaijani: edam etmək
Bulgarian: екзекутирам (ekzekutiram)
Catalan: executar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 處決 (zh), 处决 (zh) (chǔjué), 處死 (zh), 处死 (zh) (chǔsǐ)
Czech: popravit (cs)
Dutch: executeren (nl)
Esperanto: ekzekuti
Estonian: hukama
Finnish: teloittaa (fi)
French: exécuter (fr), mettre à mort (fr)
Georgian: სიკვდილით დასჯა (siḳvdilit dasǯa)
German: hinrichten (de)
Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌾𐌰𐌽 (dauþjan)
Greek: εκτελώ (el) (ekteló), θανατώνω (el) (thanatóno)
Ancient: θανατόω (thanatóō)
Hungarian: kivégez (hu)
Italian: giustiziare (it)
Japanese: 処刑する (ja) (shokei suru), 消す (ja) (kesu) (slang)

Latin: carnificō, ad necum mittō
Maori: whakamate
Norman: exétchuter
Norwegian:
Bokmål: henrette (no)
Persian: اعدام کردن‎ (e'dâm kardan)
Polish: stracać impf, stracić (pl) pf
Portuguese: executar (pt)
Quechua: hayratachiy
Romanian: executa (ro)
Russian: казни́ть (ru) impf or pf (kaznítʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сма̀кнути pf, погу̀бити pf

Roman: smàknuti (sh), pogùbiti (sh)
Slovene: usmrtiti
Spanish: ejecutar (es), ajusticiar (es)
Swedish: avrätta (sv)
Thai: ประหาร (th) (bprà-hǎan)
Ukrainian: страчувати impf (stračuvaty), стратити pf (stratyty)
Volapük: cödetadeidön (vo)

to start a defined process and run it to completion

Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بردن بەڕێوە‎ (birdin berrêwe)
Latin: fungor (la)
Maori: whakahaere
Portuguese: executar (pt)
Romanian: executa (ro)
Russian: исполня́ть (ru) impf (ispolnjátʹ), испо́лнить (ru) pf (ispólnitʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: cuir an gnìomh
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: извр́шити pf, про̀вести pf

Roman: izvŕšiti (sh), pròvesti (sh)
Slovene: izvršiti
Spanish: ejecutar (es)
Swedish: verkställa (sv), expediera (sv), utföra (sv)
Ukrainian: вико́нувати impf (vykónuvaty), ви́конати pf (výkonaty)

to start a defined process, without regard to whether it runs to completion or not

to start, launch or run software

to sign or otherwise cause a document (especially a contract) to become legally valid

execūte

execute

first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of executar
third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of executar
third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of executar
third-person singular (você) negative imperative of executar

execute

First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of executar.
Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of executar.
Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of executar.
Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of executar.