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    EXECUTING

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Putting a condemned person to deathplay

    Synonyms:

    capital punishment; death penalty; executing; execution

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    Hypernyms ("executing" is a kind of...):

    corporal punishment (the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "executing"):

    burning; burning at the stake (execution by fire)

    hanging (a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead)

    burning; electrocution (execution by electricity)

    beheading; decapitation (execution by cutting off the victim's head)

    crucifixion (the act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross)

    Derivation:

    execute (kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment)

     II. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    -ing form of the verb execute

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