Execute vs Foment - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between execute and foment

is that execute is while foment is to incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.

(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.

* (computing) start, launch, run, open

(en verb)

To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.

He was arrested for fomenting a riot; after all, it's bad enough being in a riot but starting one is much worse.

(medicine) To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge.

* 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Abbey Grange , Norton (2005), page 1178,

The maid had entered with us, and began once more to foment the bruise upon her mistress's brow.

* fomentation