execute
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- (transitive) When you execute someone, you kill someone due to the crimes that the person has committed.
- Synonym: lynch
- (transitive) When you execute an action, you carry it out.
- (transitive) (computing) When you execute a program, you start, launch or run it.
- I executed the program to begin my installation of the new web browser.