2. cursed, accursed, Archaic, maledict, damned, plagued, anathematized, imprecated, excoriated, inveighed against, railed against, fulminated against; condemned, censured, denounced.
3. inferior, poor, bad, horrible, appalling, imperfect, defective, faulty, Inf. not up to snuff,
execrate, v. 1. abhor, abominate, loathe, despise, detest, hate; have an aversion to, feel hostility toward, be hostile to, not be able to bear or abide.
2. curse, Archaic, accurse, damn, swear at, anathematize, revile, imprecate, invoke evil upon, excoriate, plague, inveigh, rail against, fulminate; vituperate, condemn, proscribe, censure, denounce.
execration, n. 1. curse, imprecation, malediction, anathema, damnation, excoriation, fulmination, plague; vituperation, condemnation, censure, denunciation.
2. abhorrence, abomination, detestation, animosity, animus, hatred, hostility, abhorring, abominating, loathing, despising, detesting, hating; cursing, imprecating, anathematizing, damning, excoriating, fulminating; vituperating, condemning, proscribing, censuring, denouncing, denunciating.
3. the condemned, the damned, the cursed, the accursed; anathema, Fr. bete noire, bugbear, bogeyman.
execute, v. 1. carry out, accomplish, perform, do, discharge, fulfill, consummate; succeed in, manage, bring off, SI. pull off, Inf. put over, U.S. SI. swing, U.S. SI. cut, U.S. SI. hack; mastermind, engineer, negotiate, work out; bring about, make happen, cause, effect, effectuate; put through, produce, turn out, achieve, attain, realize; carry through, complete, finish; dispose of, SI. knock off, SI. polish off, expedite, dispatch.
2. put to death, behead, decapitate, guillotine, decollate; hang, gibbet, lynch, SI. string up, SI. stretch, crucify; stone, lapidate; burn at the stake, electrocute, send to the electric chair; gas, poison, drown; kill, murder, slay, shoot, strangle; put an end to, get rid of, put away, remove, silence, finish off, dispatch; All SI. rub out, bump off, knock off, snuff out. See - kill (defs. 1, 2).
execution, n. 1. accomplishment, fulfillment, realization, success, attainment, acquirement; achievement, performance, production; completion, consummation, finishing, conclusion.
2. capital punishment, judicial murder; hanging, lynching, Euph. necktie party; decapitation, decollation, guillotining; electrocution, gassing, poisoning; crucifixion, impalement, lapidation, stoning; burning, burning at the stake; killing, murder, slaying, shooting, strangling, strangulation. See - killing (defs. 1, 2).
3. (all of performance) mode, style, manner, touch, technique, technical skill; rendition, rendering, interpretation, representation, version.
executioner, n. executionist, SI. Jack Ketch, hangman, lyncher, garroter; decapitator, headsman, behead-er; gasser, exterminator, annihilator; firing squad; cru-cifier, killer, murderer, slayer; bloodspiller, bloodshed-der, bloodletter. See - killer (def 1). executive, n. 1. administrator, director, manager, leader, head, chief, principal; supervisor, superintendent, Inf. super, overseer, boss; master, commander, taskmaster, overlord; Inf. kingpin, Inf number one, Inf. Mr. Big, SI. top dog, SI. top banana, SI. big cheese.
2. president, premier, ruler, governor, intendant, mayor, Inf. (collectively) brass.
3. dignitary, personage, Inf. V.I.P., Inf. bigwig, SI. biggie, SI. big shot; celebrity, luminary, somebody, Inf. big name.
-adj. 4. administrative, managerial, directorial, supervisory, conductorial, regulatory; executory, authoritative, official, directive, legislative, front-office; jurisdictional, governmental, gubernatorial, mayoral, magisterial.
