Executing and Ordering

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Executing noun - Putting a condemned person to death.

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Ordering and executing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ordering" instead an adjective "Executing".

Ordering noun - A scheme of rank or order.

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Executing and ordering are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Executing" instead an adjective "Ordering".

Nearby Words: order, ordered

After executing Jimmy, Nucky becomes much more ruthless and cold-blooded, casually ordering the execution of a thief and executing another thief himself, both times after assuring the thieves that he'd spare them.

Source: Series / Boardwalk Empire
You Have Failed Me: The emperor considers executing the general in A Sword is Drawn, but after hearing his chronicler speak and delivering his lecture at court, he decides retract the execution and ends up ordering the chronicler and general castrated.

Source: Literature / An Instinct for War
His past atrocities include ordering his men to march into minefields to clear them for the tanks, sending them in hand-to-hand combat against the enemy to tie them up and then wipe them both out with artillery, and executing a million of his own men to build a bridge with their bodies.

Source: Token Evil Teammate

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