EXECUTE, hang, behead, guillotine, decapitate, electrocute, shoot, gas, crucify, stone; kill, murder, assassinate, eliminate, terminate, exterminate, destroy; informal bump off, polish off, do away with, do in, knock off, top, string up, take out, croak, stiff, blow away; N. Amer. informal ice, rub out, waste, whack, smoke; poetic/literary slay.
2192; headword