Executing and Enduring

executing

Putting a condemned person to death.
- synonyms: execution, capital punishment, death penalty

Kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment.
- usage: "In some states, criminals are executed"
- synonyms: execute, put to death
Murder in a planned fashion.
- usage: "The Mafioso who collaborated with the police was executed"
- synonyms: execute
Put in effect.
- usage: "carry out a task"; "execute the decision of the people"; "He actioned the operation"
- synonyms: carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, action, fulfill, fulfil
Carry out the legalities of.
- usage: "execute a will or a deed"
- synonyms: execute
Carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine.
- usage: "Run the dishwasher"; "run a new program on the Mac"; "the computer executed the instruction"
- synonyms: run, execute
Carry out or perform an action.
- usage: "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance"
- synonyms: perform, execute, do
Sign in the presence of witnesses.
- usage: "The President executed the treaty"
- synonyms: execute

(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Execute.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

enduring

Put up with something or somebody unpleasant.
- usage: "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
- synonyms: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up
Face and withstand with courage.
- usage: "She braved the elements"
- synonyms: weather, endure, brave, brave out
Continue to live through hardship or adversity.
- usage: "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water"
- synonyms: survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out
Undergo or be subjected to.
- usage: "He suffered the penalty"; "Many saints suffered martyrdom"
- synonyms: suffer, endure
Last and be usable.
- usage: "This dress wore well for almost ten years"
- synonyms: wear, hold out, endure
Persist for a specified period of time.
- usage: "The bad weather lasted for three days"
- synonyms: last, endure
Continue to exist.
- usage: "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures"
- synonyms: prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure

Unceasing.
- usage: "an abiding belief"; "imperishable truths"
- synonyms: abiding, imperishable
Patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble.
- usage: "an enduring disposition"; "a long-suffering and uncomplaining wife"
- synonyms: long-suffering

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary