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Synonyms of execution in English:

execution


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noun

1‘the execution of the plan’

SYNONYMS
implementation, carrying out, accomplishment, performance, effecting, bringing off, bringing about, achievement, carrying off, carrying through, completion, enactment, enforcement, discharge, prosecution, engineering, attainment, realization, fulfilment
perpetration

2‘the execution of the play’

SYNONYMS
performance, presentation, rendition, rendering, staging
delivery, technique, style

3‘thousands were sentenced to execution or imprisonment’

SYNONYMS
capital punishment, the death penalty, being put to death, killing
the gibbet, the gallows, the noose, the rope, the scaffold, the guillotine, the firing squad
North American the chair, the electric chair
informal the drop
North American informal necktie party
historical noyade