## Meanings
1. To carry out a plan, order, or task.
2. To kill someone as a legal punishment for a serious crime.
3. To make a contract or other document legally valid by signing it.
4. (of a computer) To run a program or instruction.

## Examples
- The team executed the project exactly as planned.
- The prisoner was executed at dawn.
- Both parties executed the contract in front of a lawyer.
- The computer executes the commands one line at a time.

## Synonyms
- do
- perform

## Derived Forms
- electrocute
- executability
- executable
- executed
- execution
- executioner
- executive
- executor
- executrix
- executry
- misexecute
- nonexecuted

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *sekʷ-
- Root: executer
- Root: exsecutus

## Etymology
From Old French executer (French exécuter), from Latin exsecutus, past participle of exsequor (“to follow (up/through)”, particularly in the sense “to go through with a deed or punishment”), from ex- (“out”) + sequor (“to follow”).

## AI Etymology
Execute comes from Old French executer (French exécuter), from Latin exsecutus, past participle of exsequor (“to follow (up/through)”, particularly in the sense “to go through with a deed or punishment”), from ex- (“out”) + sequor (“to follow”). In current use, the main senses are “To carry out a plan, order, or task” and “To kill someone as a legal punishment for a serious crime”.

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