Executing and Strangling

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

strangling

The act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe.
- usage: "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused"
- synonyms: choking, strangulation, throttling

Kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air.
- usage: "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes"
- synonyms: strangle, strangulate, throttle
Conceal or hide.
- usage: "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
- synonyms: smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repress
Die from strangulation.
- synonyms: strangle
Prevent the progress or free movement of.
- usage: "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"
- synonyms: hamper, halter, cramp, strangle
Constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing.
- synonyms: choke, strangle
Struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake.
- usage: "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
- synonyms: gag, choke, strangle, suffocate

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

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary