Execution
Execution noun - The doing of an action.
Killing is a synonym for execution in murder topic. In some cases you can use "Killing" instead a noun "Execution", when it comes to topics like capital punishment.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- dispatch and execution
- dispatch and killing
- massacre and execution
- massacre and killing
- annihilation and execution
- annihilation and killing
- murder and execution
- murder and killing
- hit and execution
- hit and killing
- slaughter and execution
- slaughter and killing
- carnage and execution
- carnage and killing
How words are described
| good | good execution | good killing |
| special | special execution | special killing |
| mass | mass execution | mass killing |
| ritual | ritual execution | ritual killing |
| Other adjectives: fake, brutal, actual, real, quick, gruesome, apparent, outright, military, random, subsequent, double, last, occasional, aforementioned. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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After killing him as per her agreement she does indeed become more famous than he could ever hope to be just as she had wanted... during the moment of her execution for Haman's murder.
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Halfrida is a traumatized girl who dreams of killing soldiers in vengeance for her family's execution, Skeeter is a ten year old who can murder men three times her size, and the evil queen of the book is only fourteen years old.
Source: Literature / Chroniclesof Magic - Killing in self-defense of your own life, or killing someone who is currently attempting to murder someone else, and execution of convicted murderers is likewise permissible and even obligatory under Biblical law.
Source: Thou Shalt Not Kill
Cite this Source
Killing and Execution. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/execution/killing
Execution & Killing. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/execution/killing>.
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