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EXECUTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Put to death as punishment
Example:
claimed the body of the executed traitor
Classified under:
Similar:
dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb execute
Context examples:
While the direction was being executed, the lady consulted moved slowly up the room.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He spoke of miners' meetings, where all the men of a locality came together and made the law and executed the law.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Raphael's face was found boldly executed on the underside of the moulding board, and Bacchus on the head of a beer barrel.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The signatures to this instrument purporting to be executed by Mr. W. and attested by Wilkins Micawber, are forgeries by—HEEP.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Here's luck, A fair wind, and Billy Bones his fancy, were very neatly and clearly executed on the forearm; and up near the shoulder there was a sketch of a gallows and a man hanging from it—done, as I thought, with great spirit.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Now was the moment for her resolution to be executed, and, while her courage was high, she immediately said: Mr. Darcy, I am a very selfish creature; and, for the sake of giving relief to my own feelings, care not how much I may be wounding yours.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The king ordered the man to be brought before him, and threatened with angry words that unless he could before the morrow point out the thief, he himself should be looked upon as guilty and executed.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Reviewing more than 2,000 studies, the team pulled data from a final group of 66 studies executed over a 36 year period to determine how response may be affected by the type and timing of sleep deprivation performed (total vs early or late partial sleep deprivation), the clinical sample (having depressive or manic episodes, or a combination of both), medication status, and age and gender of the sample.
(Sleep Deprivation: Effective Anti-Depressant, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I could not but observe, however, that her fall was very carefully executed, and that she was fortunate enough, in spite of her insensibility, to arrange her drapery and attitude into a graceful and classical design.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My imagination was vivid, yet my powers of analysis and application were intense; by the union of these qualities I conceived the idea and executed the creation of a man.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
