Verb

(execut)

To kill as punishment for capital crimes.

There are certain states where it is lawful to execute prisoners convicted of certain crimes.

To carry out; to put into effect.

Your orders have been executed , sir!

I'll execute your orders as soon as this meeting is adjourned.

* Milton

Why delays / His hand to execute what his decree / Fixed on this day?

To perform.

to execute a difficult piece of music brilliantly

to execute a turn in ballet

To cause to become legally valid; as, to execute a contract.

(computing) To start, launch or run; as, to execute a program.

Verb

(explor)

(obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.

To examine or investigate something systematically.

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To travel somewhere in search of discovery.

(medicine) To examine diagnostically.

To (seek) experience first hand.

To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.

To wander without any particular aim or purpose.

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They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored' wherever they were permitted to ' explore , paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.