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Explode and Execute

verb

  • Cause to burst with a violent release of energy.
    • usage: "We exploded the nuclear bomb"
  • Burst outward, usually with noise.
    • usage: "The champagne bottle exploded"
  • Show a violent emotional reaction.
    • usage: "The boss exploded when he heard of the resignation of the secretary"
  • Be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise.
    • usage: "His anger exploded"
  • Destroy by exploding.
    • usage: "The enemy exploded the bridge"
  • Cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/.
  • Drive from the stage by noisy disapproval.
  • Show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete.
  • (v.) ()
  • Increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner.
    • usage: "The population of India is exploding"; "The island's rodent population irrupted"
  • (v.t.) To bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion or doctrine.
  • (v.t.) To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder.
  • (v.t.) To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire.
  • (v.i.) To burst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam.
  • (v.t.) To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play.
  • (v.i.) To burst forth with sudden violence and noise; as, at this, his wrath exploded.
  • (v.i.) To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.

verb

  • Kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment.
    • usage: "In some states, criminals are executed"
  • Murder in a planned fashion.
    • usage: "The Mafioso who collaborated with the police was executed"
  • Put in effect.
    • usage: "carry out a task"; "execute the decision of the people"; "He actioned the operation"
  • Carry out the legalities of.
    • usage: "execute a will or a deed"
  • 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"
  • 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"
  • Sign in the presence of witnesses.
    • usage: "The President executed the treaty"

execute is the act of making a document legally valid, such as formalizing a contract by signing or acknowledging and delivering a deed. In some cases, execution of a document may refer solely to the act of signing, in other cases it may refer to complete performance of the document's terms.