execute

/ˈek-si-ˌkyüt/

Middle English, from Anglo-French executer, from execucion execution

verb

  1. to carry (something) out fully : to put (something) completely into effect

  2. to do what is provided or required by (something)

  3. to put (someone) to death especially in compliance with a legal sentence

execute a command

kill slay murder assassinate dispatch execute mean to deprive of life. kill merely states the fact of death caused by an agency in any manner. slay is a chiefly literary term implying deliberateness and violence but not necessarily motive.