executed

verb

past tense of execute
1
as in enforced
to carry out effectively the agency charged with executing the nation's drug laws

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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

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3
as in assassinated
to put to death deliberately during the war those convicted of desertion were summarily executed

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Recent Examples of executed Smartly, Fischer and Wilson build out this community with its own strange customs, big and small, each executed without explanation, question or complaint. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 The researchers worked with RISC-V assembly code, which represents instructions executed by a processor. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026 In one instance 80,000 people watched as a 13-year-old executed his family’s killer. — Dr. Michael Good, Hartford Courant, 22 Oct. 2026 DeSantis signed the warrant a day after the state executed William Reaves for killing Indian River County Sheriff's Deputy Richard Raczkowski four decades ago. — Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026 There's no one character who came up with the idea and executed it … the existence of AI today comes down to many papers, many individual discoveries, and a whole lot of obsession. — Cooper Katz McKim, NPR, 16 Oct. 2026 The Tesla soon launched itself from its position beneath the ramp's nearly horizontal ledge, executed a barrel roll in midair, and landed softly, all thanks to its SpaceX cold-gas thrusters. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Krantz said that search warrants were executed at the shooter's home and investigators are still combing through evidence and interviews. — ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026 Twelve of them are executed on the banks of Pyongyang’s Taedong River, and the advancing South Korean forces want to turn them into martyrs. — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for executed
  1. enforced
  2. performed
  3. assassinated
  4. implemented
  5. accomplished
  6. murdered
  7. fulfilled
  8. killed
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  • But even for those species that nominally benefit from it, the law is very rarely enforced.
    — Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Environmentalists have expressed concerns, however, that the law won’t be enforced against Pérez under the country’s conservative National Party, of which Zambrano is a member.
    — Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2026
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  • Two experienced military observers described a silent craft that performed abrupt maneuvers before disappearing.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Previously, Los Tigres del Norte performed at Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s final rally before Election Day in 2024.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of performed
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  • Riehle made it to Broadway in 1986 with a role in the Emily Mann drama Execution of Justice, which centered on the trial of Dan White, who assassinated San Francisco mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978.
    — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Earlier that year, King had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
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  • Night curfews have been implemented in some areas of the French capital, as well as in other cities where calm has been restored.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The system the editorial actually describes, and that nearly 100 other countries have implemented, is not privatization.
    — Letters to the Editor, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
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  • When pressed on whether an overhaul on that scale could be accomplished, El-Sayed compared it to mountain climbing.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026
  • This is a team that accomplished something never done in NFL history against the Buffalo Bills in Week 5.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of accomplished
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  • During this same time his father had vanished behind the Bamboo Curtain and was almost certainly persecuted, possibly even murdered, by the same Communists that Hoover claimed to be fighting.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
  • New or expecting mothers are more likely to be murdered than to die from obstetric causes.
    — Michele Decker, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of murdered
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  • Dellucci and his teammates had fulfilled their personal dreams and made history as the fastest franchise to win a World Series.
    — Don Riddell, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026
  • In 2020, Gaels owner Derrick Bachman fulfilled his dream of revamping a restaurant in his own vision when Brady’s Public House decided not to renew its lease at 5424 Troost Ave.
    — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 26 Oct. 2026
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  • Two women, ages 50 and 60, were killed and dozens of other people were wounded in a Russian strike on a market in Lozova, in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, said Oleh Syniehubov, head of the regional military administration.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Samuels was killed just minutes after posting about Wright's abuse on social media.
    — WCCO Staff, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
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“Executed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/executed. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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