Commit
Execute
Execute verb - To carry through (as a process) to completion.
Usage example: when you execute this dance step, try to keep your arms a little higher
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By having very minor punishment for the first time someone commits a crime, but the second crime they commit, they execute them.
Source: All Crimes Are Equal -
Judge Dredd: The Dark Judges famously use the statistic that none of the people they execute will ever commit another felony again as proof that death is the cure for crime.
- Horrible is told that not only does he need to commit a murder to enter the Evil League of Evil, due to his previous failures Bad Horse will execute him if he screws this one up.
Source: You Have Failed Me
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Execute and Commit. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/commit/execute
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Execute or Commit. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/commit/execute.
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