EXECUTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does executed mean? 

• EXECUTED (adjective)
  The adjective EXECUTED has 1 sense:

1. put to death as punishment

  Familiarity information: EXECUTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXECUTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put to death as punishment

Context example:

claimed the body of the executed traitor

Similar:

dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)

 Context examples 

It is only to be wished they were as well executed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

At four o'clock he executed a running jump, gained the roof of the chicken-house and leaped to the ground outside, whence he sauntered gravely to the house.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A type of Phase III trial executed near the time of approval to elicit additional findings.

(Phase IIIb Trial, NCI Thesaurus)

Executed and carried through to completion.

(Performed, NCI Thesaurus)

If the monster executed his threat, death was inevitable; yet, again, I considered whether my marriage would hasten my fate.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

My plan was laid at Westminster, a little altered, perhaps, at Cambridge, and at one-and-twenty executed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

NASA's Juno mission successfully executed its first of 36 orbital flybys of Jupiter today.

(Juno Successfully Completes Jupiter Flyby, NASA)

Applied to a problem-solving procedure implemented in software to be executed by a computer.

(Algorithm, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue associated with a therapy or algorithm not being delivered or executed at the expected time.

(Failure to Fire Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

The device software contained code that could never be executed under any circumstance.

(Device Unreachable Code Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)